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  • 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" 2009

  • Ah, yes, BadReligion transmogrified as theological peritus.

    Paul Weyrich and Wars « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

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

    The return of the Sedia Gestatoria? 2009

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

    Pope Benedict XVI 2007

  • 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 2004

  • 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 2004

  • 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 2005

  • 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 Mike L 2005

  • 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.

    The heretic dines with the inquisitor Mike L 2005

  • 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 2005

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  • T.L.S.: 'He served as a peritus, or theological expert, at Vatican II...'

    April 8, 2009