Word: dogmas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many Protestants are unaware of it, but the infallibility of the Pope has never once been officially exercised since the doctrine was defined by the Vatican Council in 1870.* This week, the vast machinery of the Roman Catholic Church seemed almost ready to proclaim, by papal infallibility, a new dogma which all true Catholics would be required to believe: that upon the death of the Virgin, her body was taken up directly into Heaven...
Although the Feast of the Assumption has been celebrated in the Church at least since the 7th Century, and the Assumption is one of the "glorious mysteries" on which Catholics meditate while saying the Rosary, this belief has never been pronounced a dogma. Informed sources now predict that Pius XII will do so next April 2-the 50th anniversary of his ordination...
...second main dogma of the Neo-Malthusians is their belief that the productivity of the world's cultivated land is falling now and is sure to fall even more because of erosion and exhaustion. The enormous crops that the U.S. raised this year, they say, are a cruel illusion; they were achieved by "soil mining," and will be paid for inexorably in future crop failures...
...quickly the practice of conservation will spread throughout the world, U.S. soil men cannot say. But they do say that the obstacles are economic and social, not technical. Science can stop most kinds of soil deterioration and will surely lick the rest. For the Neo-Malthusian scare-dogma that the world's soil must inevitably lose its productiveness, the soil men have a one-word answer: bunkum...
...chilling, impersonal, antiseptic quality. "We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Lao-tzu, the teachings of Buddha," he declares. To Lindbergh, science "intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition." Once science has helped mankind to separate "the truths of God . . . from the dogma which surrounds them ... we still have the possibility, here in America, of building a civilization based on Man, where . . . leadership rests on the respect and confidence it instills in others, and whose standard of life is the quality of life itself...