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Next to papal infallibility, the biggest barrier to Catholic-Protestant unity is the humble Jewish girl who gave birth to Jesus of Nazareth. By popular piety and papal decree, Roman Catholics have gradually elevated Mary to the queen of heaven, born free of sin and assumed bodily into heaven. Marian "maximalists" even yearn for the day when a Pope will promulgate new dogmas that in union with her son she is redemptress of the human race and mediatrix of God's grace to men. For centuries, Protestants have reacted by condemning Catholic "Mariolatry" as paganism and ignoring the Virgin...
Cartouche. Robin Hood, as history and Hollywood have depicted him, was a chump. He stole from the rich, gave to the poor, and what did he keep for himself? An invincible virgin named Maid Marian. Fortunately, they do these things better in France. According to this film, a fellow named Cartouche, the Robin Hood of 18th century Paris, stole from the rich, gave to the poor, and what did he keep for himself? Claudia Cardinale...
...Marian Anderson, contralto...
OPENING NIGHT AT THE WORLD'S FAIR (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* A grand tour of the New York World's Fair, with Host Henry Fonda and Special Guides Carol Channing, Fred MacMurray and Marian Anderson...
...major problem is papal infallibility, which Orthodoxy holds is a divine gift to the church, not to one prelate. Another is the existence of dogmas-such as the Marian Assumption and Immaculate Conception-that have been irrevocably defined by Rome but remain merely "pious beliefs" in the East. Other disputed doctrinal issues are the Roman belief in purgatory, which Orthodoxy denies, and the Catholic refusal to permit remarriage after divorce on grounds of adultery...