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...creation of the commission was unquestionably the mildest reply that doctrinal dissent has ever received in Roman Catholic history. In the days of the medieval Inquisition, even heretics who offered to recant were burned at the stake for having dared to question at all. During the first decade of the 20th century, Modernists like French Abbe Alfred Loisy, who championed scholarly Biblical criticism, and British Jesuit George Tyrrell, who urged the revision of old dogmatic formulas, were excommunicated for beliefs that have become commonplace in the postconciliar church. Vatican II was indeed a watershed. Not since the Council has Rome...
...Masaryk, son of Tomás, had jumped out of a window-a claim that seemed credible to many Czechoslovaks despite evidence that he was pushed. Many of Palach's mourners compared him to Jan Hus, the 15th century martyr who chose death at the stake rather than recant his religious views...
...challenging the wisdom of Ptolemy, the Egyptian who 1,500 years earlier had asserted that the earth was the center of the universe. And why would Joshua have commanded the sun to stand still (Joshua 10: 12-13) if it did not move? Galileo was forced to recant. Addressing a meeting of Nobel-laureate physicists at Lindau, West Germany, Franz Cardinal Koönig of Vienna announced: "I am in a position to declare that an initiative will be taken which will lead to an open and honest solution of this case." Although Church leaders and writers in recent decades have...
...outspoken Russian poet is as good as his word. He spits when the mood strikes him, and he seems care less of the consequences. When Nikita Khrushchev personally upbraided him for his unconventional poetry, Voznesensky stubbornly refused to recant. When critics attacked him for formal ism, which in Soviet jargon means experimenting with the language, Voznesensky replied in verse: "They nag me about formalism./Formaldehyde: you stink of it and incense." He helped to stir up the Soviet Writers Congress last May by signing a letter boldly calling for an end to Soviet censorship. Last week copies of a Voznesensky...
...seemed curious that Bill Gurvich, who had eagerly made the announcement of Shaw's arrest last March and led the pursuit of other suspects ever since, should have waited so long to recant. "For months and months I was in this thing," he explained, "and all the time Jim was saying that we were just about to round the corner. Seeing how things were going, my conscience began tearing me apart...