Word: dogmas
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...Minnesota Senator well realizes, and doesn't regret, the haziness of his ideology: "(Liberalism) ... is basically an attitude toward life rather than a dogma--characterized by a warm heart, an open mind, and willing hands." He speaks of compassion far more than justice; he stresses understanding and deprecates revenge. Dramatically different from the leftist radicalism of the '30's and the civil rights militance of the 60's, his is the "soft" liberalism of the 40's--a liberalism which fades rather easily into paternalism...
...some of them it is martyrdom. Yes, a sort of martyrdom. It seems to me that sometimes I hear a sort of moan, as if many voices were asking the church for liberation from the burden. What can I do? Ecclesiastical celibacy is not a dogma. It is not imposed in the Scriptures. How simple it would be: we take up a pen, sign an act, and priests who so desire can marry tomorrow. But this is impossible. Celibacy is a sacrifice which the church has imposed upon herself - freely, generously and heroically...
...would have it, a copy of the ritual (in translation) wandered slowly across the vast Near Eastern deserts to America, where it fell, like manna from heaven (Mecca, anyway), into the hands of the first Imperial Potentate, Dr. Walter M. Fleming. For his part, Fleming dropped some of the dogma, amended the purposes to stress "the exercise of charity and the improvement of the mind" rather than "the gaining of all possible power and the purification of base elements from the land," but was careful to hang onto what mattered...
...titular Bishop of Sygdea in Crimea,* Roberts goes at a fast clip lecturing, traveling, writing, and battling for causes unpopular with most members of the church hierarchy. He likes to recall that in 1950 he advised Pope Pius XII against defining the dogma of Mary's assumption. He plugs away for a bigger voice for the laity in church affairs: "I would hope to see the apostolic tradition restored to where the laity had a voice, especially in matters concerning marriage, to advise a body entirely celibate...
There, Mario Montessori, natural son of the Italian woman who worked out the method, has carried on since her death in 1952 at 81. But when Head mistress Rambusch insisted on relaxing the strict discipline of the original Montessori dogma, Mario called her a heretic and withdrew the charter. "My task has been to create a society for the maintenance of the 'pure' Montessori," he explains with a sigh...