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...contrast, this generation seems to delight in dogma. Handlin reluctantly observes "all the eager young faces looking up at the platform, waiting to be told what to believe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Handlin Raps Youth's Quest For 'Security' | 1/5/1951 | See Source »

Soviet scientists lost face with their free colleagues a few years ago when they were forced to support pseudo-scientific theories that conform to Communist orthodoxy. Many scientist sympathizers, including Britain's Professor J.B.S. Haldane, broke with the Russian line over the dogma that Trofim Lysenko's sloppy genetics teaching (i.e., that environment is the big determinant in the development of life) is the only true doctrine. it was widely predicted that subjection to such authority would seriously damage the morale of Soviet scientists, and that the ill effects would soon show up on the practical level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Watchful Unorthodoxy | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...celebrated since the first in 1300. More pilgrims had come to Rome than ever before-3,200,000, compared to the 582,000 in 1925 and the 350,000 in 1900. More canonizations and beatifications had taken place (eight of each) than in any other Holy Year. A new dogma of the church-the bodily Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven (TIME, Nov. 6) -had been pronounced. And in his final Holy Year address last week, the Pope made an announcement which Catholics had long waited to hear. The tomb of St. Peter, he said, had definitely been found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: End of the Year | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...Faithful. The climax of the ceremonies would be All Saints' Day, when the actual definition of the dogma was scheduled to take place in an elaborate ceremony. From a throne set up before the central gate to St. Peter's, above a colorful sea of bishops' miters and upturned faces, the Pope receives the formal request of the College of Cardinals that the dogma be proclaimed. After a prayer, the Pope reads the bull† of proclamation: ". . . The presence of Mary in soul and body in Heaven is a God-revealed truth . . . Hence if anyone deliberately presumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Dogma | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...Usuard, a Benedictine monk, wrote his Martyrology in the 9th Century, at the instigation of Charles the Bald. * Last such definition, in 1854: the dogma of Mary's Immaculate Conception (that she was conceived free of original sin). † An official papal document named for the lead seal, or bulla, which papal and royal documents carried in the early Middle Ages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Dogma | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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