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...Middle Ages' Angelic Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas, hewed to a middle way that became the orthodoxy of the modern Roman Catholic Church after it was canonized by the Council of Trent in the 16th century. Aquinas taught that faith was essential to salvation, but so were good acts done under the influence of faith. St. Thomas' successors failed to preserve his careful balance. Late medieval theology overemphasized active piety: Christians were encouraged to expiate the punishment for their sins that awaited them in purgatory by gaining papally-provided indulgences -available for such good works as do nating money...
...Byzantine Emperor on religious problems. The second (1464-71) was a carnival-loving Renaissance prince who tried to lure Russian Orthodoxy into union with Rome. The third (1534-49) was a reformer of sorts who gave his own son and nephews cardinalates, yet also convoked the great Council of Trent. The fourth (1555-59) was an unlamented inquisitor, who boasted: "Even if my own father were a heretic, I would gather the wood to burn him." The fifth (1605-21) was also a rigid doctrinaire, who fought bitterly with the anticlericals of his time...
...Maui Hotel is so revered an institution that some of its affluent guests (like Faithful Vacationer Marshall Field Jr.) arrange to skip Honolulu completely, fly by private plane directly in and out of Maui. Just within the past six months, a first-class championship golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones has opened, flanked by two new luxury resorts. One is the Royal Lahaina. a 32-cottage settlement and semiprivate club. The new Sheraton-Maui is less expensive but more spectacular. Perched high on an escarpment of black rock, the 150-room hotel hangs like a scalloped upside-down cake...
...interior has a spectacular view and an excellent cuisine. Puerto Rico's finest hotel is the Dorado Beach, 20 miles west of San Juan, built by Laurance Rockefeller and spread out over 1,200 acres, which include a private airport and a championship golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones...
Vatican I had nearly as vast an agenda as Trent; yet in four argument-ridden sessions in 1869 and 1870, the 774 bishops succeeded only in formulating two decrees: papal infallibility and a statement on the nature of faith. More than one-fifth of the bishops did not want papal infallibility defined, and 55 of them walked out of the council rather than vote on the decree (all ultimately accepted it). A storm raged over Rome on the day the doctrine was approved; each favorable vote was echoed from outside St. Peter's Basilica by an awesome clap...