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However, members of Opus Dei may not hold political beliefs that contradict Catholic doctrine. "Atheistic communism is specifically condemned," Schmitt said, "and if socialism is understood as a denial of private property, then that would be wrong...
...object was to get one or more mavericks who would contradict the majority and thereby hang the jury. The stratagem did not work. Last week, after nine months of endless testimony and agonized deliberations, the seven-man, five-woman panel that had convicted Charles Manson, Leslie Van Houten, Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkel also recommended the death penalty for all four. Then Judge Charles Older did something unusual: he commended the jurors for service "above and beyond the call of duty." If it were within his power, he said, he would award each member a medal of honor. Concluded Older...
...blessed Peter -operates with that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer wished that His Church be instructed in defining doctrine on faith and morals; and so such definitions of the Roman Pontiff from himself, but not from the consensus of the Church, are unalterable. But if anyone presumes to contradict this definition of ours, which may God forbid: let him be anathema...
...goes on to criticize those artists who invite interpretation, Bergman, for example, whose "lame messages about the modern spirit" and "callow pseudo-intellectuality" contradict "the beauty and sophistication of his images." Sontag's first experience as a film director, however, indicates a reappraisal of the concrete cultural situation. Duet for Cannibals openly invites the interpretations that are inevitable anyway and uses them as traps, frustrating slaps in the face with each contradiction designed to break us of our interpretive habit (and of our humanist consciousness...
Epstein last night said that he did not know what Frost could have been referring to in his record which would contradict Garry's charge of racism. He stated that he had no history of civil rights activity, for example, but that it was possible that Frost had been trying to protect himself or Garry from a libel action by Epstein...