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...division between Roman Catholics and other Christians was widened last week-by a split hair's breadth. A secret consistory was called to meet in Rome Oct. 30 to hear the Pope proclaim as official Roman Catholic dogma that the Virgin Mary was taken bodily into heaven at her death. The decision drew a prompt and strongly worded attack from the Church of England...
...Protestant Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill heartily concurred with his British spiritual brothers. But Roman Catholics were quick to discount any divisive effect of the new dogma. The Assumption would be no impediment "to our separated brothers," wrote the Rev. Giuseppe Filograssi in the authoritative Jesuit fornightly Civiltà Catholica. "The true and crucial point of dissension rests in the primacy and infallibility of the Pope...
Actually the proclamation of the dogma of Mary's Assumption has been under intensive consideration by the Roman Catholic hierarchy since 1946, when Pius XII sent a circular letter to his bishops asking their advice. (The reply was overwhelmingly in favor of a papal pronouncement -TIME, Nov. 22, 1948.) And though there is no reference to the belief in the canonical Scriptures, the Assumption has been celebrated as a regular feast day since as early as the 7th Century. The new dogma would make only one difference. For Roman Catholics to doubt the truth of the doctrine today would...
Neither is Mr. Niebuhr's thesis that the Renaissance movement toward glorifying the individual was a wicked flight into paganism well taken. It could just as logically be argued that this was a reaction against the depressing, guilt-producing dogma of the church that man is innately evil, and represented a flight into freedom, away from dogma contrary to man's nature...
...said Quinton, is just about as evident as a boop. Then he went on to draw a prestidigitator's "proof" of God's nonexistence from Christian dogma: "God created the world." "World" in this sense, said Philosopher Quinton, means not "earth" but "everything...