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...Swore in an old friend, Washington Lawyer Leonard Marks, as director of the U.S. Information Agency, declaring: "We are neither advocates nor defenders of any dogma so fragile or doctrine so frightened as to require propaganda. Truth wears no uniform and bears no flag. But it is the most loyal ally that freedom knows...
More Maneuvers. In all, the 2,500 prelates will have eleven agenda items to deal with. A twice revised schema on the sources of Revelation-a pronouncement that leaves open the question of whether church dogma has its foundation in Scripture alone or in a handed-down tradition as well-is certain to get quick approval, as are shorter documents on seminaries and Christian education. Sure to get eventual approval, too, is a revised declaration on religious liberty, which particularly interests non-Catholic Christians. The document asserts that, as a matter of divine right, "nobody can be forced...
Flexible Tools. Most of the shackles, of course, remain in place. Party dogma is still sacrosanct; when newspaper discussion comes too close to sensitive issues, the party simply chokes it off. While most Western broadcasts are no longer jammed (the jamming equipment has been moved eastward to blank out Radio Peking), non-Communist Western newspapers are still banned in Russia. When the magazine Kommunist recently urged the Russian press to increase its news coverage, its aim was not so much to free the press as to meet the competition. "We have to admit that bourgeois news agencies have achieved...
After graduation, Dunn briefly considered becoming a missionary ("A young man feels he has to serve") and entered a Capuchin monastery. He describes his religious experiences as "an intellectual process, probably of parabolic shape." After six months he decided he could not accept the dogma and left...
...Mary. Nowhere are there more problems for the translator than on the islands of the Pacific, whose people have hundreds of languages, ranging from Bugi, the tongue of Celebes, to Yapese, spoken on the tiny U.S. trusteeship island of Yap. Most of them require awkward circumlocutions to express Catholic dogma. In pidgin English for example, God is "Bigfellow master too much who bosses heaven and ground." Even more bothersome is the primitive Enga language of the New Guinea mountains. In trying to translate the "Hail Mary" prayer, explains one missionary, "we found that if a group of men wanted...