Word: ottaviani
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thank you for printing the statement [Aug. 3] of Cardinal Ottaviani on the subject of Roman Catholic intolerance. It is in agreement with the history, doctrines and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. It is good for all ... who love religious liberty to understand that this harsh principle of Roman Catholicism has not been changed, and is put into oppressive execution where their majority is great enough...
...letters protesting even the rudimentary privileges the Franco government gives to Protestantism. This had set off a riffle of objections from U.S. Roman Catholics, who insist that Segura's views are typically Spanish and anachronistic. But one of Rome's top experts in ecclesiastical law, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, had more recently made a speech backing up Segura's strong views on the suppression of Protestantism, and last week the New York Times reported that this had the complete approval of the Holy...
...those who acted surprised, Vatican officials were surprised right back. Cardinal Ottaviani's speech was "unexceptionable," a Vatican official said, and there was certainly nothing...
...Duty of Rulers. In a record of his views published in the American Ecclesiastical Review, Cardinal Ottaviani was more explicit. "Now if there is any certain and indisputable truth to be found among the general principles of public ecclesiastical law," he wrote, "it is the truth that the rulers in a state composed almost entirely of Catholics, and consequently and consistently governed by Catholics, have the duty to influence the legislation of that state in a Catholic sense . . . [and] to protect . . . the religious unity of a people who unanimously know themselves to be in secure possession of religious truth...
...reasoning behind Ottaviani's view is an old and deeply rutted road in Catholic polity. God. the reasoning holds, gave mankind the truth once and for all in Jesus Christ; the Roman Catholic Church was established by Christ as the single possessor of that complete truth. It is wrong, then, for the possessor of the truth, whether an individual or a group, to foster the promulgation of error, or to permit it, except for strong reasons, when it has the clear power to prevent it. Any non-Catholic religion, it argues, is error. Therefore a Catholic government...