Word: hereticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Friar Betto is a sympathetic, perhaps even credulous, interviewer. The author told TIME that nothing Castro says in the book "qualifies him as a heretic." | The friar also regards Cuba as "far more just" than most of the world's nations because it supposedly has eliminated poverty. He explains that...
There is a fundamental doctrinal reason for such enmity. Islam proclaims that Muhammad was the "Seal of the Prophets," God's final messenger to mankind. But the Baha'i faith-an offshoot of Shi'ism, which is itself a minority branch of Islam-asserts that two prophets...
The following year Luther was summoned to recant his writings before the Diet of Worms, a council of princes convened by the young Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. In his closing defense, Luther proclaimed defiantly: "Unless I am convinced by testimony from Holy Scriptures and clear proofs based on reason...
Only a generation ago, Catholics were trained to consider Luther the arch-heretic. Now no less than the Vatican's specialist on Lutheranism, Monsignor Aloys Klein, says that "Martin Luther's action was beneficial to the Catholic Church." Like many other Catholics, Klein thinks that if Luther were...
THE OLD PURITANISM runs deep at Harvard. The University, we are reminded often, was first founded as a training school for young ministers. Here they would come to study liturgy and oratory, learning how to guide souls in righteousness and lead back the heretic and the remiss. Here, shivering in...