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Upon what he calls the "Protestant principle"--a prophetic power like the voice of the prophet outside the temple calling people back to God and away from the formalism and sophistries of the priest--he has built what has been called "one of the most impressive Protestant theological systems since the time of the reformers." In his system he is often compared with St. Thomas Aquinas...
...head the commission, Premier Scelba picked Italy's most articulate foe of statism: Don Luigi Sturzo, the aged and respected Senator-priest who founded the Christian Democratic Party, launched Scelba in politics and last month gave a stirring lecture (TIME, March 8) on the menace of too much government...
...actually is a misnomer. His full name is Leonard J. Feeney, and he is known as "father" only to his small group. He was excommunicated last year for preaching the heretical doctrine: "There is no salvation outside the Catholic Church." Feeney was previously deprived of his rights as a priest when he was defrocked...
...Vienna's hard-driving Archbishop Coadjutor Franz Jachym vainly petitioned the Austrian Chancellor and Parliament to do something about it. The two most obvious solutions: 1) maintain widows' pensions in the event of remarriage; 2) amend the Nazi-instituted marriage law that makes it illegal for a priest to marry anyone without a civil ceremony first, thus permitting "marriages of conscience...
...Those Suffering Pangs of Conscience," the petition asked: "Shall the widow because she draws a pension of several hundrad schillings ... be obliged to forgo the primitive right of marrying again?" If the state refuses to act, wrote the Archbishop, "the bishops [will be] obliged to ... order the proper priest to perform the marriage in open contravention...