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...which is of concern to all students at Harvard because it addresses a problem of fairness which goes beyond the circumstances of this particular debate. Despite what Dean Archie C. Epps III has stated, the issue at hand is not whether HCIA is autonomous from the Boston Church of Christ. At issue is the right of any group of students to exist as a recognized organization when it meets the minimum requirements stated in University regulations. HCIA is a good test case for Harvard because it challenges the sincerity of our rhetoric when we so loudly and proudly proclaim...
...official reason given by Dean Epps for his two-year delay is that he has concerns about the group's autonomy; however, he has given no indication of how HCIA violates the autonomy rule other than citing that some of its members are affiliated with the International Churches of Christ...
...objection is easily countered by noting that many other student groups at Harvard, especially religious ones, are formed by students with a common interest based on their individual affiliations with outside organizations. Consider, for example, the Catholic Students Association, the Korean Baptist Koinonia and Christian Impact (Campus Crusade for Christ). Does anyone question the autonomous status of these groups because their members have an affiliation with a particular church or fellowship? Of course not. Even with non-religious groups, Harvard seems to have no problem with this ambiguity, considering that it recognizes Amnesty International, the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard...
...lingering effects of wounds suffered in the 1981 assassination attempt by Mehmet Ali Agca. John Paul has written an apostolic letter on the supernatural value of human suffering in which he teaches, "Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ." Though he does not mortify his flesh with a hair shirt -- as Paul VI sometimes did -- he clearly sees his own physical ailments in this light...
...Opus Dei. (Papal spokesman Navarro is a member.) He has declared this controversial organization a personal prelature, which means that it is exempt from the jurisdiction of local bishops and reports directly to Rome. The Pope has also given warm encouragement to a new religious order, the Legionaries of Christ, which some conservatives see as a replacement for the Jesuits of old. Members are in training for up to 14 years (even longer than Jesuits) and have proved themselves to be more personally committed to supporting the papacy. With more than 300 priests and nearly 3,000 more in training...