Word: hereticism
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Reverent gayety at Augsburg, Bavarian city on the River Lech, last week celebrated the 400th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession. Martin Luther, who all his adult life suffered with nervous headaches and sometimes with hallucinations, in 1517 posted his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church at Wittenberg...
In 1907, more than a quarter-century after he had begun, he elucidated a sunspot theory, modestly crediting its discovery to the 17th Century heretic Galileo Galilei. Sunspots, Father Ricard declared, exert a definite influence on weather conditions, cause tidal waves, earthquakes, tornadoes, affect even the moods of animals. After...
The origins of this rift were in 1925 when the Czechs, three fourths of whom are Catholics, celebrated as a national holiday the anniversary of the martyrdom of John Hus five centuries ago. Since Heretic Hus had been burned for intimating that the anti-Christ could be found at Rome...
During his spare time, of which he generally has little, Dr. Poling writes novels which he signs "Dan Poling." One of these (The Heretic) he wrote on a Westbound transcontinental train. He has laid his novels on New York harbor barges, in Pittsburgh steel mills. He knows about New York...
Heretic Barton, having sketched a frockless Catholic priest conducting a Quaker meeting house in Utopia, finished his article with an affirmation which none might well deny.