Word: papally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, Bishop Charles H. Helmsing of Kansas City-St. Joseph, in his formal condemnation of the National Catholic Reporter, singled out an article by Callahan on papal infallibility as verging on heresy. *Although it is still an article of faith, the dogma has little bearing on the lives of Catholics; many theologians take for granted that it will wither away, especially since it remains a strong barrier to ecumenism...
Michael Novak has defined this attitude toward church structure as "nonhistorical orthodoxy." It is not supported by an analysis of Christian origins. The papal claim to monarchic supremacy is based, in part, upon Jesus' words in Matthew 16:18: "You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church." Today, the majority of New Testament scholars agree with the view of Bishop Francis Simons of India, who notes in his new book, Infallibility and the Evidence (TIME, Nov. 1) that the sentence simply singles out Peter as first among the Apostles and says nothing at all about...
...band director Jim Walker acknowledged yesterday there is pressure to keep the shows at the Brown and Yale games reasonably clean. Walker indicated there has been scattered flak, hotly in private the band's spoof of the Papal encyclical on birth control at, of all games, the one against Holy Cross...
...will build my church." Simons argues that Jesus was simply singling out Peter as the foremost of the Apostles and was not investing him with a special spiritual charisma in teaching. In any case, he adds, "if the evidence for ecclesiastical infallibility is not valid, the case for papal infallibility collapses with...
Since its founding in 1964, Kansas City's lay-edited National Catholic Reporter has made a specialty of running stones that some members of the U.S. hierarchy would have preferred not to see in print. The weekly has, for example, revealed the secret texts of the Papal Commission on Birth Control and exhaustively reported repressions of outspoken priests. Last week Bishop Charles H. Helmsing of Kansas City-St. Joseph, issued a formal condemnation of the NCR. In a solemn four-page public statement, Helmsing denounced the paper for "its disregard and denial of the most sacred values...