Word: circularity
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...Bishops, 35 Cardinals. St. Anthony's vision, with the accumulated visions, insights and inspired beliefs of centuries of Roman Catholics, has built up a vast deposit of faith that this week became an official dogma of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1946 Pope Pius XII sent a circular letter to all bishops, asking whether they thought the Assumption should now be defined as church dogma. The replies were mostly favorable...
...Communists' best bellwether for what quipsters call the new "Marxianity" is learned Anglican T. C. Chao, dean of Yenching University's School of Religion, who was elected two years ago as one of the six co-presidents of the World Council of Churches. In a recent circular letter, Dr. Chao and such other Christian venerables as Methodist Bishop Z. T. Kuang (who baptized Chiang Kai-shek 20 years ago) attempted to justify the reform program on the grounds that it enabled the church to "energetically participate in the construction of the new China...
...thought about its dilemma on various levels. Some architects in Boston conjured up a design for a circular house (flat surfaces are vulnerable to shock waves), built of concrete, with double-thick windows and stainless steel doors. Washington realtors advertised houses and lots "beyond the radiation zone." Worried people in Atlanta inquired about insurance policies against atomic-bomb damage...
...palms and the soles they are somewhat smaller and rather reddish in color, and are covered with a sort of transparent tissue. The wound in the left side is deep, and shaped like a long, narrow diamond. On the head under the hairline there are numerous small wounds, mostly circular in shape. On the back there are several crosswise reddish marks, rather like lash marks...
Actually the proclamation of the dogma of Mary's Assumption has been under intensive consideration by the Roman Catholic hierarchy since 1946, when Pius XII sent a circular letter to his bishops asking their advice. (The reply was overwhelmingly in favor of a papal pronouncement -TIME, Nov. 22, 1948.) And though there is no reference to the belief in the canonical Scriptures, the Assumption has been celebrated as a regular feast day since as early as the 7th Century. The new dogma would make only one difference. For Roman Catholics to doubt the truth of the doctrine today would...