Word: dogmas
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Will Mary-loving Pope John Paul II cap his career by declaring a new dogma? A recent anthology from a small Roman Catholic publisher in Santa Barbara, Calif., predicts that as early as next year, John Paul will exercise his power of infallibility to declare Mary the Co-Redemptrix of humanity and "Mediatrix" of all graces. That would make her a participant in salvation--along with her son Jesus Christ. There has long been talk of such a move, since devotion to Catholicism's Queen of Heaven is never far from the heart of this Pontiff...
...advice. The Vatican daily newspaper disclosed last week that the advice was unanimous--leave things be. Among the reasons: Popes have shunned Co-Redemptrix talk for a half-century; the bishops of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) decided not to give Mary any new titles; and such a dogma could raise "ecumenical difficulties." Translation: Protestants and the Orthodox would go into orbit, feeling Christ has been demeaned as the unique Saviour...
...what about the pressure of writing the script for Warner Bros.' big-budget Superman Lives? "I got $325,000 and six weeks to do it," he says. "But I procrastinated, so I had to write it in a week." He is developing a TV series. His next film, Dogma--a satire in which God is a woman, Jesus is black and drug dealers return as prophets--begins shooting in the fall. No wonder he has a tattoo of the Mad Hatter emblazoned on his biceps...
...likes the minimalist Unitarian dogma--theologically vague but believing in "the inherent dignity of people and in working together to achieve harmony and understanding." He can accept the notion of divinity so long as it is couched abstractly--as the "asymptote" of goodness that we strive toward--and doesn't involve "characters with beards." He hopes the Web will move the world closer to the divine asymptote...
...productive, heroic being were compatible with the conservative vision of a wretched sinner who will sacrifice himself for the needy willingly if the government will just let him. Objectivists are caricatured as blind followers, as if being convinced by a rational argument were equivalent to obeying some authority's dogma. Ayn Rand's admirers are smeared as "philosophically challenged" by a detractor who invokes Nietzsche and Sartre as historical advocates of reason--a howler which would bring swift retribution in any first-year philosophy class. None of these critics seems to feel willing or able to adduce reasons to reject...