Word: dogmas
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Because the first Archbishop of New York witnessed the public definition 76 years ago of the Roman Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Conception, the present Archbishop of New York last week presided over a solemn high mass of thanksgiving...
...Seminary, Rochester, N. Y. (where he was born). He had studied at Rome, Cambridge and Munich and there had absorbed much of the modernized philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas (Thornism), philosophy which Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) approved. But Thomism leads, if unrestrained, to dangerous questioning of Roman Catholic dogma, to what Leo's successor Pius X (1903-14) called pernicious "modernism...
Parenthetically Democrat Young laid down the economic dogma that "tariffs and other petty political barriers" are definitely pernicious. "Let no man think," cried Economist Young, "that the living standards of America can be permanently maintained at a measurably higher level than those of other civilized countries. Either we shall lift theirs to ours or they will drag ours down to theirs...
...followers of various political or social creeds seem destined to continue their battle of dogma and theory in small bands, shouting from the street corners. Maybe it is all for the best. Universal tolerance still so far from realization, is perhaps not greatly to be desired after all. It is still true that most great intellectual advances have come from men of single purpose and of single mind...
...Babylon (Amkino). In mood and technique, this makes pictures like General Crack look like amateur theatricals, but it is inferior as entertainment. The difference is a matter of intention. The Amkino producers were not interested in making this product salable but in expressing a dogma passionately clear and important to the patriots of new Russia. The setting in France of 1870 is adventitious. The storyless argument lacks sequence. The vivid symbolism, used at first coherently to show what happened in the rebellion that followed the German invasion, becomes disordered and tedious. Best shot: French troops stimulated to attack doomed rebels...