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Slate thanks the dozens (yes, there were dozens) of readers who pointed out the mistake, as well as the nuns, priests, and lay theologians who gave them such excellent Catholic educations.
To frame the question less contentiously: Did the scattered theologians, bureaucrats, army officers, and (in one case) ordinary housewives who defied Hitler act more as isolated individuals than as a concerted movement?
Sobornost is a word used by some Russian Orthodox theologians, and there is, or was, a philosophic position called agathism . (The curious are directed to OED2.)
Aside from pure anti-Jesuit animus, this nuance probably arose from the work of some 17th-century Jesuit theologians who imperfectly employed a method known as "casuistry" in resolving questions of moral theology--an approach that gave the broadest possible leeway to individual behavior.
It was precisely to give witnesses and defendants a way out of the perjury trap that theologians distinguished between a lie and a misleading or equivocal statement.