Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...episode does have all the marks of a grade-Z whodunit, complete with an anonymous woman caller, a mysterious motel room in Scranton, Pa., purloined pages and sotto voce allegations of bad faith and perhaps even criminality. What is known is that Post Reporter Nancy Collins penetrated perhaps the most elaborate security precautions ever thrown around the birth of a book, and that her coup touched off a divisive row in the publishing community that some newsmen quickly dubbed "Scrantongate...
...evading a binding creed, and demanding in exasperation: "Is Jesus Christ the preexisting, eternal Son of God, one in being with the Father?" Because Küng continued to provide no flat answer, the hierarchy last November issued a formal warning that the book created a "distressing insecurity of faith" and charged that Küng had failed to explain how his Christology could be reconciled with the historic creeds...
Traditionalists are divided on how to handle such new ideas. Father Jean Galot, a Christology expert at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, fears that the essence of the faith is being challenged. Says he: "The basic question is this: Does the Church have an authentic teaching on Christology? It does. Hence theologians who claim to be representative of this Church must teach the authentic teaching of the Church...
...that false ideas are only dignified by the publicity and will die out eventually. Besides, adds a top-ranking prelate in the Curia, "I don't think the Catholic Church could stamp out these errors anyway." In 1972 the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued its most recent declaration on Christology. It defined as an error the theory that God was only "present in the highest degree in the human person Jesus," including the version in which Jesus is "God" in the sense that in "his human person God is supremely present." Though...
...associates and threatened to can cel the fight if Cassius did not denounce the Muslims. Conrad remembers: "When Ali heard that the fight was going to be nixed, he turned to Angelo and said matter of factly, 'Well, that's that.' He had absolutely no intention of renouncing his faith, not even for a crack at the world championship he'd fought and slaved so long and hard to get. It meant chucking the fight and plunging into obscurity, but he didn't hesitate...