Word: hereticism
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In December, King Hassan II of Morocco had amended the Moroccan constitution to provide freedom from persecution for established religious groups. McLellan explained, however, that heretic groups were not protected under the new amendment. It is still uncertain whether the 300 members of the Baha'i religion are considered it...
A New Language. Churchmen who know Rahner's work have strong opinions about him. U.S. Jesuit Theologian Gustave Weigel calls him "the world's greatest theologian." Many conservative churchmen, on the other hand, view Rahner's work with suspicion and hostility. Three weeks ago, Monsignor Francesco Spadafora...
*The 242 council fathers from the U.S., the most prosperous of the prelates, have the pick of available rooms. New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman will stay, as he always does, at the Grand; 80 other bishops will stay at the Michelangelo, a sleek, air-conditioned hostelry within walking...
Now comes a respected German historian who says this tale of Luther's dramatic Thesenanschlag (thesis posting) is pure legend. Dr. Erwin Iserloh, Roman Catholic professor of church history at Trier, declares that Luther merely mailed off copies of his theses to two of his ecclesiastical superiors, the Bishop...
Like James Joyce or Sigmund Freud, the late Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit priest and paleontologist, has become an inescapable intellectual presence of the age. Until, and even after, his death in 1955, the Vatican forbade the publication of his nonscientific works, largely because he accepted evolution as the key...