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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2024
ON the 15th August the Church learnt of the Holy Father's decision to define Mary's Assumption as an article of faith on the 1st November. The previous day the S.P.C.K. brought out a small book 'entitled The Assumption of Our Lady and Catholic Theology. The blurb informs us that 'It is an important characteristic of this book that it is written from a Roman Catholic point of view'. That before the dope's decision was known Catholics should speak against the opportuneness of the definition is in no way extraordinary. Learned theologians have expressed such an opinion. But we are at a loss to understand how Messrs Bennett and Wynch, if they are Catholics, consider themselves authorised to publish a book on such a serious subject without the imprimatur and from a publishing house which is ex professo non-Catholic.
1 The Assumption of Our Lady nnd Catholic Theology. By Victor Bennett and Raymond Winch. (London, S.P.C.K.; 5s.).
2 ‘Indeed there seemed little to object to in the infallibility of a pope, if he had no intention of exercising it.'
3 'This is not tantamount to saying that apocrypha or argument of devotion can u t r v e fo justify a definition, hut that rather than reject them a priori, the historian ‘ the Church” knows how to discover in them manifestations of a more solid and Profound value than profane history or literary criticism would be disposed to recognise in them.
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