Word: dogma
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Center ice at the Red Army rink on Leningradsky Prospekt in Moscow is hallowed ground in the history of Soviet athletics. Players nurtured there in the dogma of the perfect slap shot have won 32 world hockey championships and formed the core of eight Olympic gold medal teams. But economic hard times along with the departure of star players for lucrative contracts in the West have forced the Ministry of Defense, which oversees the team, to redeploy forces. At a game at the Red Army rink last week, the star performer was not a skater but a bear. A dancing...
Bone-thin after four years of declining rations, Mario Caballero, a 52-year- old school administrator in Santiago de Cuba, is one of the older generation whose faith in Fidel is well-nigh religious. If his rhetoric recalls communist dogma of the '50s, it still reflects sentiments deeply etched in the Cuban soul. "Before, our best land was Yankee. The sugar was Yankee. The electric system was Yankee. The phones were Yankee." Never mind that the sugar crop is failing for the second year, that electricity and phones rarely work. "We may be living through a special period," he says...
...bore the title of the Roman and Universal Inquisition. Soft-spoken and courteous, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 66, looks too benign to be an inquisitor. But his Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is the Roman Inquisition's latest incarnation, and as the Catholic Church's chief enforcer of dogma, the Cardinal stands in direct succession to the persecutors of Galileo and the compilers of the index of banned books. The weight of history is borne in the attention Ratzinger receives. His staff, which includes some of the church's brightest men, is sensitive to every small sign of pleasure...
...professors, a man who questioned the thinking behind the church's 1950 declaration that the Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven was an infallible tenet. "He said, 'No, this is not possible -- we don't have a foundation in Scripture. It is impossible to give this as a dogma.' " This led the professor's Protestant friends to hope they had a potential convert. But the professor immediately reaffirmed his abiding Catholicism. "No, at this moment I will be convinced that the church is wiser than I." Ratzinger asserts: "It was always my idea to be a Catholic, to follow...
...power. It has threatened nothing less than the partition of the country into autonomous federations, dividing < the wealthy north from the poor south. The Democratic Party of the Left, formerly the Italian Communist Party, continues to insist that it represents the workers and the poor, but now without Marxist dogma. The neofascists of the Italian Social Movement played to widespread anxiety about public order. But despite their claims of moderation, they are plagued by a fringe of noisy skinheads, racists and thugs who remind Italians of the disastrous Fascism of World...