Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doctrine, ten have been published defending universal religious freedom." Many of these theologians deal with the problem of giving rights to error by making a distinction between protecting error and the moral obligation to grant freedom of conscience-whether conscience is in error or not. Dr. Carillo quotes German Jesuit Theologian Max Pribilla: "Religious liberty, when it is understood correctly, does not mean the protection of error, but the protection of the erring men who should not be prevented from serving God according to their conscience. Even the erring conscience imposes obligations and acquires corresponding rights. The protection accorded...
...Roman Catholic Church is losing ground fast among its 168 million members in Latin America-close to one-third of all the Catholics in the world. This is the considered opinion of a Belgian Jesuit sociologist who has spent the last three years in Chile, is now director of the School of Sociology of Chile's Catholic Pontifical University. The church's difficulties, says the Rev. Roger E. Vekemans in the weekly Ave Maria, began in the 19th century after the Latin American countries achieved independence from Spain and Portugal and thus were thrown open to such influences...