Silencing no safeguard of truth.(discussion of controversial issues)

Religious authorities, no less than secular ones, have used silencing as a method to enforce orthodoxy. In the history of the Catholic church, we have seen the index of forbidden books, secret trials of the Spanish and Roman Inquisitions, the silencing of scientific and theological views - for examp...

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Published inNational Catholic Reporter Vol. 37; no. 35; p. 22
Main Author GRAMICK, JEANNINE
Format Magazine Article Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Kansas City National Catholic Reporter 27.07.2001
National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company
Subjects
Catechisms
Censorship
Church controversies
Discipline
Dissenters, Religious
Management
Political persecution
Religious dissenters
Social control
United States
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Summary:Religious authorities, no less than secular ones, have used silencing as a method to enforce orthodoxy. In the history of the Catholic church, we have seen the index of forbidden books, secret trials of the Spanish and Roman Inquisitions, the silencing of scientific and theological views - for example, Galileo and the early 20th-century modernist theologians.
ISSN:0027-8939