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DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 27, 1990                   TAG: 9006270280
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: VATICAN CITY                                LENGTH: Short

VATICAN GROUP ORDERS DISCIPLINE ON DOCTRINES

The Vatican on Tuesday ruled out public dissent by theologians, striking at those challenging papal authority and the church's ban on birth control.

Saying the church has suffered "serious harm" from open criticism, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ordered theologians to uphold its teaching or keep quiet.

"To succumb to the temptation of dissent . . . is to allow the leaven of infidelity to the Holy Spirit to start to work," the commission said in a 28-page document approved by Pope John Paul II.

- Associated Press 


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