Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officially exercised since the doctrine was defined by the Vatican Council in 1870.* This week, the vast machinery of the Roman Catholic Church seemed almost ready to proclaim, by papal infallibility, a new dogma which all true Catholics would be required to believe: that upon the death of the Virgin, her body was taken up directly into Heaven...
...permitted [liceat], is it convenient [deceat], is it opportune [expediat to adhere to these requests [for the dogmatic definition of the Assumption]?" The letter explicitly asked the "Venerable Brothers" if, "according to your wisdom and prudence, you believe that the Bodily Assumption of the Most Blessed Virgin be established and defined as a dogma of faith and if this would be in accord with the wishes of your clergy and people." The Pope is reported to have said that the "answers, in their great majority, are favorable...
Caralli of Leuchtenberg. During the coming year such pictures of the hovering Virgin, the angels and vacant tomb will be increasingly exhibited. When Pius XII finally proclaims the new dogma from the altar of the Cathedra, in St. Peter's, Roman Catholic Christendom will be waiting...
...Pius IX defined as dogma the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary-the belief that Mary was preserved from all sin from the moment her soul was created and infused into her body. But his infallibility had not at that time been officially recognized as dogma...
Author Bolitho's reason for doing more amply what Strachey has already done more economically is the emergence of fresh material-among others, hitherto unpublished letters from Prince Consort Albert to his German tutor, letters from the Queen to her daughter the Empress of Germany, tappings from such virgin sources as the late Queen Marie of Rumania, certain aged members of Victoria's court and the 19th Century files of the Hartford (Conn.) Times and Courant. Hardly enough to justify a new and inferior biography...