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...Personal Corporeal Presence of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Heaven" is the name of a new dogma which, it is confidently said, and equally confidently denied, Pope Pius XI will promulgate this year. This dogma would raise the Blessed Virgin to an even higher place in Catholic thought than she now occupies. According to one view, it will establish her on the throne of Heaven equal with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost...
World-wide opposition is expected. Half the cardinals are opposed to the promulgation of the dogma, as are the majority of prelates in England, Germany, France, America...
Battle Is Between Freedom and Dogma...
...battle is one between freedom and dogma, between the adjustment of religion to our knowledge and the rejection of knowledge because it does not fit into a theology centuries old. "You men at Harvard," he continued, "are little concerned with the theological questions of any particular church. You care very little for the details of a controversy over the action of certain Bishops, or the heresy of a minister or even the division of a church. But most of you are deeply interested in religion in an abstract way." He concluded by saying that college men think for themselves...
Allan Armstrong Hunter, California student at Union Theological ,Seminary, has found a voice. A contributor to magazines, he makes (in The Forum) this point: the young priest or preacher is not interested in debates about theological dogma (virgin birth, etc.); the young priest is interested in questions which he scarcely dares face, and those are the questions of " social justice." Are the rich too rich; the poor too poor? Since the church does so little to educate young men and women to marry intelligently, has it a right to forbid divorce? Birth control? Perhaps H. G. Wells is right...