peritus

• “It is an art, please note, closely related to ethics, for those same theorists described the truly successful orator as vir bonus dicendi peritus -- a good man, skilled in public speaking.”

  Jesuit: Obama is "the most effective spokesperson" for "the spirit of Vatican II"

• “Ah, yes, BadReligion transmogrified as theological peritus.”

  Paul Weyrich and Wars « Antiwar.com Blog

• “Ratzinger, was a liberal peritus and a close associate of Rahner.”

  The return of the Sedia Gestatoria?

• “He attended all the sessions of the Second Vatican Council, as a peritus, or theological adviser, working for Cologne's Cardinal Josef Frings.”

  Newsweek: Pope Benedict XVI

• “Appointed a peritus, or theological adviser, at the council, Murphy contrived to have his observations published as a "Letter From Vatican City" in The New Yorker.”

  In Search of a Pope

• “I must now put some queries to you, as to a juris publici peritus, which I am sure you can answer me, and which I own I cannot answer myself; they are upon a subject now much talked of.”

  Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

• “As I take you to be the greatest juris peritus and politician of the whole Germanic body, I suppose you will have read the King of”

  Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

• “A peritus at Vatican II along with Ratzinger, whom he had headhunted from the University of Münster's theological faculty for that of Tübingen a few years earlier, Küng is probably the best-known of the "progressive" theologians who dominated, if not the Council's deliberations themselves, at least its interpretation in the two or three decades that followed.”

  Archive 2005-09-01

• “The Latin periculum, akin to peritus, “experiment,” means “risk.””

  Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

• “They described him to me as vir bonus, bene strangulando peritus; but Mr. Cole, who knew him personally, gave him a high character for generosity and freedom from fanaticism.”

  Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah

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