That's not the result many expected in 2012 when the Vatican, under Pope Benedict XVI, announced that its doctrinal office was taking effective control of the LCWR for at least five years in order to overhaul the group.
On birth control, he said that, while doctrinal change was not a possibility, the important thing for the church was "to ensure that pastoral care takes into account situations and what is possible for people".
In 1925 he gained full control over what doctrines would be taught in Watch Tower Society publications, overruling the refusal by the five-man Editorial Committee to publish his article, "Birth of the Nation", which contained significant doctrinal changes.
To assess the success of discussing religious doctrine in clarifying understanding of doctrinal stance and increasing acceptance of evolution, we compared the change in evolution knowledge (KEE), doctrinal understanding (ULSE) and acceptance of evolution (MATE) between treatment and control sections using an independent one-way ANOVA analysis.
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This was shortly followed by a minority report from Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, the arch-conservative ex-prefect of the Curia's Doctrinal Congregation (formerly the Holy Office) and the chairman of the birth-control commission.
The last great exertion of centralised power in the Catholic church was not, as some people think, the pontificate of John Paul II, which was marked by a disciplinary and doctrinal crackdown, but the reforming Second Vatican Council of the 60s, which John Paul II and his then lieutenant, Cardinal Ratzinger, were trying to control.
Predestination was its doctrinal core.
Syncretism is common, and doctrinal rigidity rare.
