Word: athanasius
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...religious journalist, delves into Marian history with less authority but with the once-burned affection of a woman who, rummaging recently through a drawer, was moved to discover her old rosary. Cunneen qualifies as a Catholic feminist: she is painfully aware of the line that runs between Saint Athanasius' 4th century contention that Mary "remained continually at home, living a retired life and imitating a honeybee" and the impossibly pure, impossibly obedient "Housewife Mary" rejected by many of Cunneen's peers in the 1960s...
...survive, Wills believes, the church must be "resurrected from the feet up." New forms of life have come from outside the hierarchy: "from Athanasius at local councils, Benedict in the monasteries, Francis of Assisi in the roads." Reformers of the past-from Savonarola to John Henry Newman-suffered or were silenced in their time but eventually prevailed. "It has always been the task of the prophetic church to redeem the kingly church," Wills concludes. "As Pope Innocent needed St. Francis, Paul VI needs Dan Berrigan...
...that the parent Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (the Southern Presbyterians) should withdraw from membership in the council, a motion that may well be seconded by a dozen more presbyteries at this year's General Assembly. Episcopalians in Southern California who belong to the archconservative Society of St. Athanasius have made a number of motions at church financecommittee meetings to withhold funds from the council...
...Israel bought the seventh scroll (and three others) from Jerusalem's Syrian Metropolitan Mar Athanasius Samuel, and experts at Hebrew University tackled the problem of unrolling it. Slowly softened by humid air, the leather scroll finally opened. Its center yielded four complete and legible pages and several fragments. Last week the secret of the seventh scroll was revealed. It proved to be a warning against jumping to conclusions about the Dead Sea Scrolls...
...shepherds, who had hoped for treasure, were disappointed to find eight crumbling manuscripts wrapped in linen and stored in large jars. In Jerusalem, they eventually found two buyers: the Hebrew University and Metropolitan Mar Athanasius Yeshue Samuel of the Syrian Jacobite Church...