Word: paule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time when Roman Catholics are questioning tenets of their religion in an atmosphere of rare intellectual excitement, Pope Paul VI last week proclaimed an inflexible affirmation of traditional Catholic doctrine. In a new church creed,* the Pontiff etched a portrait of Christianity little changed from medieval days...
...concept that every human inherits Adam's guilt has increasingly been challenged by a counterview: "original sin" is man's inborn weakness, but the only sins for which a man can be held accountable are those committed of his own free will. Not so, said Paul: "We believe that in Adam all have sinned." The Pope specifically reaffirmed a pronouncement by the Council of Trent, which maintained that original sin is transmitted "not by imitation but by propagation...
...INFANT BAPTISM. Because everyone is a sinner born, the Pope continued, "baptism should be administered even to little children ... in order that, though born deprived of supernatural grace, they may be reborn." Paul thus brushed aside the questioning of infant baptism raised recently by Catholics and non-Catholics alike on a variety of grounds-the most important of which asks whether those baptized should not be old enough to understand the significance of the ritual...
...assured also to the episcopal body when it exercises with him the supreme magisterium." Thus his only concession in the entire credo was a nod in favor of the concept of collegiality, approved by Vatican II, under which bishops and cardinals can more fully share power with the Pope. Paul also expressed the hope that "Christians who are not yet in full communion of the one only Church will one day be reunited in one flock with one shepherd only"-a statement that was no comfort to the ecumenical movement...
...that the wafer and wine of the Mass are mystically changed into Christ's true body and blood. They have suggested, instead, a doctrine of "transignification," which argues that the change does not take place in the substance of the bread and wine but in the meaning. Pope Paul reaffirmed the literal interpretation, concluding: "In the reality itself, independently of our mind, the bread and wine have ceased to exist after the consecration, so that they are the adorable Body and Blood of the Lord...