Word: celling
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Because of the slow pace of renewal since the ending of the Second Vatican Council, the underground church movement seems to be strongest among Roman Catholics-although most cells ecumenically include Protestants, Jews and even atheists. A few operate with quasi-official approval. On Chicago's South Side, for example, 40 members of St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, including one of its assistant pastors, form the nucleus of an underground congregation called Vatican 21. Why the name? Explains Robert Keeley, 29, a schoolteacher: "The church was supposed to be carrying out the spirit of Vatican II, instead...
Reason for Secrecy. More often than not, underground churches are as clandestine as spy rings, have neither a name nor a formal organization, limit membership to a trusted few. In this sense, at least, they resemble the cells of the zealous Catholic lay organization Opus Dei (TIME, May 12). A major reason for so much secrecy is that the interfaith membership includes renewal-minded priests and nuns who fear the wrath of their bishops for taking part in illegal services.* Nonetheless, many of these clerics regard the services at underground churches as far more meaningful than Catholicism's official...
Sociologist Caporale, who reports that similar underground churches are rising in Europe and Latin America, argues that a major weakness of the movement is its introverted quality: unless the cells maintain some connection with the official church, they may turn into inbred holiness clubs. Publisher Donald Thorman of the National Catholic Reporter, however, is convinced that the movement will not soon disappear, largely because so many clerics have become involved. "There have been innumerable unofficial movements within the church before," he says, "but they came and went rapidly because they lacked the unifying factor of a priesthood and a liturgy...
...Last week, Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., cracked down on an underground cell called "The People" for celebrating informal worship services without ecclesiastical supervision...
...researchers were still at a loss. But there was no doubt about effects. The National Cancer Institute's Dr. C. Gordon Zubrod reported that by the time a leukemia patient is ill enough for his disease to be diagnosed, he usually has 1012 (or 1 trillion) leukemic cells in his blood. His physician must try to kill all these abnormal cells without killing or damaging too many of the normal cells. In the trade, said Dr. Zu brod, each factor of ten in that trillion cells is called a log, and in the first few years after Dr. Farber...