Word: romanism
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Given new impetus by a council that in many ways answered the Reformation demands upon it, Roman Catholicism frequently seems like a ship that has lost its rudder in high seas: almost every week a priest defects and marries, a theologian challenges defined dogma, new evidence appears that laymen are putting aside authority-given moral guidance to take a stand, Luther-like, as conscience dictates...
Scorn Gone. The most remarkable aspect of the Luther renaissance is that it is enthusiastically endorsed by Roman Catholics, whose postconciliar hymnbooks are patently incomplete if they do not include his martial hymn, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God. Less than a generation ago, Luther was scorned-even by Catholic scholars who should have known better-as a sensuous, psychotic, fallen monk, the deliberate destroyer of Christendom. Luther, wrote Jesuit Hartmann Grisar in his 1926 biography, suffered from "an extraordinary capacity for self-delusion...
Alice Toklas became a Roman Catholic, anxiously inquiring of her priest whether "this will allow me to see Gertrude when I die." She lived alone in an apartment in her remaining years, bedridden and arthritic, having daily contact only with her maid Yacinta. At week's end she was buried next to Gertrude in Paris' famed Perè Lachaise Cemetery, where also lie such luminaries as Molière, Proust, Chopin and Delacroix...
...unanswered question is how current can an encyclopedia be in a Roman Catholic Church that is in the midst of continuing turmoil and flux. Father Whalen admits the problem and that more than 1,000 entries had to be changed as a result of decrees enacted by the Second Vatican Council. To stay up to date, the editors hope to issue periodic supplements similar to those put out by the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...surprisingly, Roman Catholic leaders take a dim view of New Left thinking. Last month the Master General of the Dominican order, Father Ancieto Fernandez, dismissed the leading theologian of the New Left, the Rev. Herbert McCabe, 40, as editor of the zesty Catholic monthly New Blackfriars. What triggered the firing was an editorial by McCabe in the magazine's February issue commenting on the defection of Theologian Charles Davis (TIME, Dec. 30). His charges that the church was "racked by fear" and dominated by authority rather than truth, said McCabe, "seem to be very well founded; the church...