Word: recant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wallach's statement went on, "Father Feeney is a man rightly repudiated by his parish, his Order, and by his Church at Rome. His is the mentality that applied the torch to the medieval fagots of the Inquisition; his is the dogmatism that forced Galileo to recant and burned St. Joan of Arc. His is the bigotry at which sincere Churchmen pale with horror...
Father Feeney is currently waiting for and "ex cathedra" pronouncement ("infallible pronouncement") from the Pope on the current dogma to be followed. He has announced that he has no intention of harming the Church, and will certainly recant. "In any event,' 'he says, "I will remain a true Catholic always...
...only contradicted Marx, but blasted the premises of Soviet foreign policy. Party henchmen went to work (TIME, Feb. 2, 1948). He was dismissed from his job as head of the Academy of Science's Institute of World Economics and World Politics. He was told to recant. Instead, he pluckily announced: "I cannot follow the advice of accepting all the criticism of my work as correct. If I did, I would be deceiving the party, hypocritically saying 'I agree with the criticism,' when I do not agree...
Seller was asked by Vice-President Reynolds a week ago to undertake a special inquiry and to make recommendations for improvement of food and its preparation. Seiler attributes the survey, to recant student furor about food, particularly as shown is the Council poll...
...that Mindszenty was drugged or beaten. All that can be said with certainty is that Mindszenty's whole life proved he was a brave and stubborn man, a man who at every fork in his life proudly took the dangerous, uphill way; to have made such a man "recant" was a sort of miracle of evil...