Word: dogma
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Personally I am not perturbed over the losses of such souls or concerned about infractions of irrational religious dogma; but having a lively intellectual curiosity, I am interested as to why the idea of birth control should be deemed unchristian and unethical in various quarters...
...Roman Catholic Church (Pope Leo XIII): "It is not lawful for the State ... to disregard all religious duties or to hold in equal favor different kinds of religion"; the Supreme Court of the U. S. has stated that our "law is committed to the support of no dogma, the establishment of no sect." On marriage and divorce, U, S. law and Catholic law vary widely...
...taken a definitely "bone-dry" stand on Prohibition. If, there is to be any Wet parade, Democrats must organize it, the most available drummer-boy being Senator James A. Reed of Missouri. Governors Smith of New York and Ritchie of Maryland are ardent foes of the Anti-Saloon League dogma, but are not so ready to exorcise it with tom-toms...
...about the 2nd Century A. D. gives more, says that Joachim (supposedly of the royal house of David) was her father, Anna (supposedly of the priestly house of Aaron) was her mother. Late in life, after angelic visitations, to Anna and Joachim was born a daughter, Mary. Roman Catholic dogma says that she was herself immaculately conceived.? Early theologians, while maintaining the freedom of Mary from earthly sin, held that she was born like all mortals with the taint of the original sin. How else, they argued, could she have been redeemed by Christ? From her third...
...Roman Catholic dogma of the ' Immaculate Conception" (of Mary) was defined as "of faith" as late as 1854 by Pope Pius IX in the Papal Bull "Ineffabilis Deus." It maintains that, while Mary was conceived in the manner common to all human beings, the Lord made her immaculate at the moment of conception; in this way her absolute sinlessness was provided...