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...Bishops, 35 Cardinals. St. Anthony's vision, with the accumulated visions, insights and inspired beliefs of centuries of Roman Catholics, has built up a vast deposit of faith that this week became an official dogma of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1946 Pope Pius XII sent a circular letter to all bishops, asking whether they thought the Assumption should now be defined as church dogma. The replies were mostly favorable...
...Rome reverberated this week to the event from which the 1950 Holy Year would hereafter take its name: the Jubilee Year of the Assumption. Clergymen and laymen poured into the city to be present at that rare Catholic occasion-the proclamation of a dogma of the church...
...behalf of the Church of England, the archbishop renewed his attack on the imminent proclamation of the Catholic dogma of the Assumption "as increasing division among Christians, and that over a point of doctrine which is in no way directly related to the Gospel and is quite irrelevant to the saving of men to Christ." He added an attack on the recent papal encyclical Humani Generis (TIME, Sept. 4) for "statements and arguments so far removed from the conception of Christian truth held outside the Roman Church that their publication and enforcement cannot but increase the isolation of that communion...
...Guido Turchi, 34, follows a more conservative line ("I detest exclusiveness and dogma"), relies on fine craftsmanship and simplicity more than experimentation. His mild-mannered Piccolo Concerto, with its pensive string passages and brilliant tone colors, was the easiest to listen to of the three new works...
Matter v. Spirit. For one thing, said the Pope, dogma is constantly being defined (as in the forthcoming dogma of the Assumption-TIME, Aug. 28). For another, the encyclical letters were themselves designed to clarify certain questions and so make further speculation on them unnecessary. If the encyclicals "pass judgment on a matter up to that time under dispute, it is obvious that the matter . . . cannot be any longer considered a question open to discussion...