Word: dissentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That the government has not used the weapon of on-campus funding to stifle the University's right of dissent...
...hand on the desk, shouting: "Listen, you are a liar! I've fought to keep politics out of the running of the university." Reagan later blamed Rector's death on "the first college administrator who said it was all right to break laws in the name of dissent...
...average North Vietnamese is grim, and that at least 50% of the people no longer supoort the government. The defector, a onetime portrait painter in his late 20s, testified that there is much discontent, but that people are afraid of talking honestly except among friends since the penalty for dissent is jail. Rationing is still strict, he said, and the 30-lb. monthly rice allotment is now 60% laced with Soviet wheat, a fact that distresses the North Vietnamese, who, like most Asians, find cereal grains untoothsome...
...that standard, Roman Catholicism is surely alive and well. Unbothered by papal warnings against dissent and rebellion, Catholic theologians are today publicly questioning established dogma in a way that might have earned them excommunication in the 19th century and execution in the 16th. Several Dutch thinkers, for example, have tried to redefine the doctrine of transubstantiation in the Eucharist, which was made dogma at the Council of Trent; others have proposed radical new ideas on original sin (TIME, March 21). Even the conventional concepts of God, the Trinity, the divinity of Christ and the reality of his Resurrection are considered...
...creation of the commission was unquestionably the mildest reply that doctrinal dissent has ever received in Roman Catholic history. In the days of the medieval Inquisition, even heretics who offered to recant were burned at the stake for having dared to question at all. During the first decade of the 20th century, Modernists like French Abbe Alfred Loisy, who championed scholarly Biblical criticism, and British Jesuit George Tyrrell, who urged the revision of old dogmatic formulas, were excommunicated for beliefs that have become commonplace in the postconciliar church. Vatican II was indeed a watershed. Not since the Council has Rome...