Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Davidson. in The Ballad of a Nun and by Maeterlinck in Soeur Beatrice. The Nun, feeling the call of the flesh, deserts her cloistered life, goes through a strange variety of worldly revels, and returns, tarnished and beaten by the world, to find that the statue of the Virgin has come to life and performed her duties in her absence...
Certainly the doctrine is understood to be part of Pope Pius IX's plan in 1854, when he proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception (i.e., that the Virgin Mary, as well as Jesus, was not conceived as other mortals...
Farly in the 12th Century St. Bernard roundly rebuked the Church of Lyons for attempting to celebrate the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin. St. Thomas Aquinas rejected the doctrine, as did also St. Bonaventura. However, John Duns Scotus, a celebrated Franciscan who died in 1308, argued in favor of the Immaculate Conception, in 1387 the University of Paris adopted it, in 1483 Pope Sixtus IV condemned those who denied it, and in 1854 Pope Pius IX promulgated it as dogma...
...time or place of Mary's death or of her bodily assumption into heaven. Certain apocryphal documents containing stories of her death, condemned by Pope Gelasius in the 4th Century, became the foundation in the 9th Century of the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. The doctrine of the bodily assumption is now extensively believed, and it is this doctrine which Pope Pius XI may promulgate in definite terms...
...Presbyterian General Assembly at Indianapolis (TIME, May 19) took steps to oust Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick from a New York pulpit. They began by insisting that every preacher in a Presbyterian church should accept, word for word, five "essentials of faith" (Virgin Birth...