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Five years later, Pius convened the first Vatican Council. Although a preparatory commission drew up a long list of topics, only two major decisions were reached: a definition of the fundamentals of faith and the dogma that the Pope, speaking for the church on faith and morals, is infallible. On October 20, 1870, the Council adjourned. King Victor Emmanuel's troops invaded Rome and forcibly incorporated the 1,116-year-old papal dominions into the new Kingdom of Italy...
ALEKSEI KOSYGIN, 58, was only 13 when the Bolsheviks seized power, and is one of the best examples of the new breed of Soviet technocrat who relies less on Communist dogma than on practical results. A wartime premier of the Russian Soviet Republic, Kosygin entered the inner Kremlin circle under Stalin, lost the dictator's favor in 1948 and remained relatively unimportant until 1959, when Khrushchev turned Kosygin's experience as an economic planner to use as the head of the State Planning Commission. During a tour of France two years ago, Khrushchev openly referred to his traveling...
Doubts About Dogma. A seminary student from the age of twelve, Hegger was ordained as a priest in 1936. Even as a novice, he had doubts about Catholicism's Marian dogmas and about papal infallibility; as a priest, he also came to question the validity of the Mass and confession. Sent to Brazil to teach philosophy, Hegger learned the tenets of Protestantism from a Methodist pastor in Rio ; in July 1948 he formally left the church...
...Assistance), the lame, 13-year-old Communist-bloc alliance originally designed by Stalin as an answer to the Marshall Plan. The COMECON agenda was, as usual, secret, but obviously two acute problems had converged to unsettle Soviet policymakers: 1) the booming success of the Common Market, which violates Red dogma that capitalist states must devour each other in competition for new markets; 2) the chronic failure of collectivized Communist agriculture...
...woman with a scientific turn of mind, a desire to believe in God, and a distrust in Christian dogma may well find himself in the pew of a Unitarian or Universalist Church. Casting up membership totals at the first annual convention of the Unitarian Universalist Association in Washington last fortnight, President Dana McLean Greeley told 1,000 delegates that he thought their church (membership: 200,000) might double in size within the next decade. "We have thought of ourselves as a tiny denomination; but with adequate vision and will, in a quarter of a century we could become a denomination...