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...Second Vatican Council's Decree on Ecumenism declared that continuing church division "openly contradicts the will of Christ." Rahner and Fries, making liberal use of Vatican II's concept of a "hierarchy of truths," proposed a unification based upon the Bible and the doctrines from the first two ecumenical councils. That would exclude such later Roman dogmas as the universal primacy and infallibility of the Pope...
...editorial accused the two Germans of "grave errors" and espoused the most conservative interpretation of Vatican II. He wrote: "The Church of Christ exists in the Catholic Church and the fullness of grace and of truth are the patrimony of the Catholic Church so that only she possesses the complete means for salvation." Reunion cannot occur, he maintained, without other churches' "assent to all and every one of the dogmas" professed by Rome. Vatican II did not explicitly make such a demand, which would exclude not only Protestants but also the Eastern Orthodox, reunion with whom has long been considered...
...gesture in The Sacrifice of Isaac, holding his wailing son down on a rock like a man about to gut a fish, even though the landscape behind them is Venetian in its pastoral calm. In The Supper at Emmaus, the characters seem ready to come off the wall, as Christ makes his sacramental gesture over the food. This insistence, this feeling of a world trying to burst from the canvas, is epitomized in one detail of the Supper--the basket of fruit, perched on the very brink of the painted table and ready to spill its contents...
...rages: "You! You will drive me into the grave with those bones! It is ridiculous to be as thin as that! It is idiotic!" His frail physique does not prevent Mama from administering energetic corporal punishment. Castleton, who finds he cannot help loving the ridiculous Dauphin, grows increasingly alarmed: "Christ, she does wade into the poor little...
Most students remained calm during the 15 to 20 minute wait, and a who rode the elevator shortly after the incident said he felt a bit anyone but safe. "Lightning never strikes twice said John G. Christ...