Word: dogma
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Some time during this period. Kazan "realized that I still carried with me some of the Communist dogma. It is part of their line to say that 'we Communists and you liberals are in the same boat...
...best omen was a new, realistic tone in the Israeli government. In the past six months indiscriminate ingathering has been curbed (TIME, Dec. 3), the currency devalued to make foreign investment attractive, the doctrinaire dogma of full employment abandoned, and all but the most necessary public works postponed. An old slogan is again heard: "Em Braira," meaning no alternative...
...important part of the Index is not the listed titles, but the fine Latin print in the introduction, citing the twelve classes of books which Catholics are not to read. They include: non-Catholic editions of the Bible, books attacking Catholic dogma, books defending "heresy or schism," books which "discuss, describe or teach impure or obscene matters." A volume fulfilling any of these specifications, whether it was published before or after 1600, is as fully banned as if it were mentioned by name. Many books, therefore, that to Catholics obviously fit one of these classifications are not even mentioned...
Censorship has had many excuses, but the ones used most often usually have something to do with the protection of some dogma--everything from. The Faith to The American Way of Life. It is disappointing therefore to find that what was once a flexible concept, tolerance, has joined the censor's list of sacrosanct doctrines. We have no quibble with advocating tolerance, a trait which many Americans lack, but lately groups like the NAACP have shorn it of much of its richest meaning. Time was when tolerance meant permitting anyone to sample whatever was thrust before him, providing that this...
Official Vatican spokesmen quickly slid out from under Monsignor Felici's words. He wrote, they protested, as an individual; signed articles in the Bulletin, a monthly magazine for clergy of the Rome diocese, do not represent official church opinion, much less dogma. Monsignor Felici corroborated them: "It was an effort at making a personal judgment on Freudian psychology...