Word: dogma
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...have grown weary of financially supporting churches and clergymen who do not in turn support their spiritual needs. Financial boycotting-called a "greenout" in this house -is a protest against preaching to and talking down to instead of communicating with and listening to; it is against the use of dogma and doctrine instead of Christ and scripture; against irrelevant Holy Name and altar guild societies; against wealth, affluence (and alcoholism) among the clergy...
Catholic theologian Rev. Hans Kung reports that a secret Vatican document recently circulated among selected bishops would use Vatican II "letter" to revert to Vatican I "spirit," leave only the Pope with real power, make "legalisms of dogma and dogmatize law" -this last, the kind of fusion Father Cunningham and Rabbi Miller seem to be approaching with their sinful driving and tref table grapes...
...most sensitive passages in any Bible translation are those that deal with doctrine. The N.A.B. retains "virgin" in Isaiah 7:14, considered a prediction of the Virgin Birth, rather than the "young woman" favored by recent Protestant versions. Several footnotes are used to explain verses apparently contradicting the Catholic dogma that Mary and Joseph never had sexual relations even after Jesus was born. One of these states that the New Testament word for the "brothers" of Jesus could mean either blood brothers or merely relatives, but the N.A.B. sides with the latter. In Acts 17:26, the N.A.B. follows other...
...Bible, it could have no "formal error," and that the church must be the ultimate interpreter. These dicta are now missing. In other departures from Douay, the N.A.B. questions the Bible's strict historical accuracy, avoids old insistences that Matthew (which contains key passages bearing on Catholic dogma) was the earliest Gospel, and confesses uncertainty about who wrote Paul's three "pastoral" letters or Peter's two letters, despite the bylines in the text...
...fastest-growing guerrilla organization because of the group's well-executed and widely publicized raids on airlines, culminating in the quadruple skyjack two weeks ago. Among Arabs, Habash is equally notable for having made ideology a paramount concern among the fedayeen for the first time. Rooted in Marxist dogma strongly tinctured with Maoism, the P.F.L.P. wants not only to attack Israel but also to topple what it considers backward, corrupt and conservative Arab governments. "We do not want peace," Habash told the West German magazine Stern recently. "Peace would be the end of all our hopes. We shall sabotage...