Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certain scholarly priests and laymen to bring Catholic teaching into line with contemporary scientific and philosophic thought. In 1921, long after the leading modernists had been excommunicated, Pope Benedict XV sensibly suppressed Benigni's spy ring. The memory of modernism has been kept alive, however, by a solemn oath against the heresy* that every Catholic priest since 1910 has had to take before receiving holy orders. Last week, Vatican sources reported, Pope Paul VI decided to abolish the oath-taking requirement, which a generation of seminarians has viewed with bemusement if not contempt; in the future, priests will simply...
...Draft Resistance group specializes in loopholes. "There are 14,000 different ways to get out," Mungo proclaims. It is perfectly legal, for example, to refuse to sign the security oath at the pre-induction physical, and you don't even have to give a reason for refusing. The army generally doesn't want anything to do with non-signers and classifies them 1-Y, Mungo explains...
...judges have done just that. But he goes on applying the law to the facts in every case. Says he: "I don't see how a judge who approaches these cases with any other philosophy, particularly if he was born and reared in the South, can discharge his oath and the responsibility of his office...
...that Catholicism's dictation of moral doctrine is doomed, that it will eventually be replaced by a form of ethics based largely on "the experience of Christian people." Contending that current doctrine too often accentuates the negative, the young priest was quoted as saying: "Even the Boy Scout oath sounds more positive than the Ten Commandments." In a subsequent book, Christian Morality Today, he flatly insisted that "I have added my own 'Amen' to those who are asking for a change in the present teaching of the Church" on birth control...
...Supreme Judicial Court is, of course, apolitical. But the Herter opinion, which if followed could end Volpe's tenure, is quite strong and quite recent. The Court might be swayed by the fact that the Governor hasn't taken the federal oath, but some of Volpe's advisors feel his case is too tenuous to go before the court...