Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five: nor are most normal people buoyed up by the unromantic hope that they may learn more mathematics; but many are "weary of the earth," and some are "laden with their sins." For these "The Conquest of Happiness" was written. It is not profound or ritualistic dogma; it is not a conquest built upon mechanical logic; it is the philosophy of a happy man expounded for everyman. In the book there are many truisms and many time worn panaceas for the jaded spirit, but they are set forth with a vigor and a clarify that lend a new vitality...
...wore khaki trousers, woolen shirts. In life he made known his views on education and religion to only a few intimates. Born of an Episcopal family, of British ancestry, he was never a church member, never a Ku Kluxer. He believed that religion is a personal matter, that church dogma should not be taught as fact. His reason for placing his chain-schools in the country, for restricting enrolment to native or British-blooded whites, was that isolation and a common background would give his youths a better chance to study, his schools a better chance to succeed. First...
Archbishop John Hughes (1797-1864)* was in Rome on Dec. 8, 1854 when Pope Pius IX proclaimed the new dogma and instructed Catholics to believe ''that the Blessed Virgin Mary, from the first instant of her conception, was, by a most singular grace and privilege of Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of the human race, preserved from all stain of Original Sin. . . ." Catholics also believe that "she had at least the graces of the first Eve before the Fall and "more." The dogma invigorated the ancient veneration of Mary. The woman Mary became...
Because the first Archbishop of New York witnessed the public definition 76 years ago of the Roman Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Conception, the present Archbishop of New York last week presided over a solemn high mass of thanksgiving...
...Seminary, Rochester, N. Y. (where he was born). He had studied at Rome, Cambridge and Munich and there had absorbed much of the modernized philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas (Thornism), philosophy which Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) approved. But Thomism leads, if unrestrained, to dangerous questioning of Roman Catholic dogma, to what Leo's successor Pius X (1903-14) called pernicious "modernism...