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Correspondence Infallibility & history Washington, D.C. Toehe Editors: John Garvey makes some worthwhile points ("Orthodox and Infal- lible?" Aug. 29) about the necessity for orthodoxy as...
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...Newman's discussion of patristic litera- ture on the papacy is certainly compe- tent, but his work on the papacy is less probing than that of his friend Acton, whose bolder and more problematic scholarship has yet to be dealt with...
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...they suggest that reality (and fiction) is chained to mysterious causes: I don't want to suggest that Mojtabai is an or- thodox believer, but she is co0tinually aware of an overarching plot, a .grand pattern of the world (however chaotic and chance-ridden events .appear...
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...The mayor of Oberammergau and the villagers are to be given credit for having taken a crucial first step in the direction of meeting some of the serious objections to the play's anti-Semitism...
...Having said this, we must now look at the changes to date to see whether in fact they are the remedies hoped for...
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...The case of Honorius is not the most impressive papal deviation from or- thodoxy or Christian morality, but Father Dubay tries to cover too much territory with that et al: most Protestant and East- ern Orthodox scholars surely do not re- gard Rome's claim to infallibility, how- ever defined, as "almost a non-problem...
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...Newman's discussion of the patristic literature on this doctrine is far more competent and satisfying...
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...To the Editors: May I offer a few com- ments on Professor Leonard Swid!er's report "Passion Play Progress" [Aug...
...Citing "The Vatican," and "The Roman Pontiff," he plainly seeks to avoid cast- ing the stone where it should be cast, at the feet of one human being: Pope John Paul II...
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