Word: dogma
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...will not respond to American Catholics' disenchantment with the church's antiquated edicts. Doctrinal disagreements in the past have caused groups to split from the Catholic Church and go their own way. When will a new generation of Catholics refuse to tolerate the frustration they feel about church dogma that they do not follow anyway? Can they find a new Martin Luther to break with the power-hungry old men in Rome? In a new church in synch with current values, vacant pulpits could be filled by married men and by women. The "cafeteria Catholics," who choose among the church...
...attend the nearby convent instead of walking a mile each way to the local public school. When Kumin came home with a stolen rosary at the end of second grade, however, her parents pulled her out of classes at the convent, realizing that their daughter was rapidly embracing Catholic dogma. “I formed an unspoken bond with Jesus,” Kumin says. In “Halfway,” she writes...
Boyer is a lot more easygoing. He knows his scyes (armholes) and his besom (stitched folds) pockets, but he cares little for dogma. He does not fuss about which collar style may be appropriate to a man's face (most, he suggests, are good for all). He provides some lustrous little essays on royal dandies, polyester, loafers and the making of Harris Tweed, which is still turned out by hand, in the Outer Hebrides. The weavers have resisted most new technology, he reports, although they have given up their time-honored method of preparing the yarn for dyeing. Chemicals have...
...politics goes against everything a secular state is supposed to do. Foreigners often see America as a place where they do not have to subscribe to a set of beliefs. The truth is that by law you don’t have to follow a state religion or dogma, but you do still have to bear the consequences of living in a country where religion is often one of the driving forces behind policies that affect every citizen...
...stations. There are many, many evangelical Christian radio stations, which bolster the right-wing talk count by hundreds. (If the Unitarians or Episcopalians have a radio network, it's not on my dial.) But these all grew organically, adding like-minded affiliates over the years. No network based on dogma had hit the air running. And with the radio right dominant, the odds of a bunch of liberals thriving, or for that matter surviving, were pretty long...