If one thing defines the Jesuits, it is their reputation for rigorous intellectual discussion and their lack of dogmatism.

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An excess of confidence in your own own point of view or capabilities can harden into dogmatism, inflexibility, not listening.

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Such dogmatism may be hard to square with practical politics.

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There is also the dogmatism of the SPLM.

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