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...return, Albrecht agreed to initiate the sale of indulgences in Mainz. Granted for good works, indulgences were papally controlled dispensations drawn from an eternal "treasury of merits" built up by Christ and the saints; the church taught that they would help pay the debt of "temporal punishment" due in purgatory for sins committed by either the penitent or any deceased person. The Pope received half the proceeds of the Mainz indulgence sale, while the other half went to repay the bankers who had lent the new archbishop the gold...
...full board will address "general university conditions" that may be allowing harassment to occur on campus, Carol Christ, faculty assistant to the chancellor, said...
...concern in establishing this procedure was that not enough people know about establishment university grievance producers. This procedure is to encourage people to report complaints to people who are more widely diffused on campus," Christ said. --The Daily Californian
...bankers' hours-nor, for that matter, with the act of receiving the paper, which is distributed almost entirely by mail. The Monitor, moreover, is not a commercial venture that must answer to the marketplace but the official voice of the prosperous First Church of Christ, Scientist. The founder, Mary Baker Eddy, declared that Christian Science had a religious duty to publish the paper. All the senior editors are Christian Scientists (Fanning converted in 1965, in the wake of her divorce). So are most of the reporters. Representatives of the church's board watch over the paper, and staff...
Such comments, and the attendant controversy, have had the inevitable result. Almost overnight they guaranteed that Jesus Christ Superstar, already jingling along three days after its opening with one of the largest ($1.2 million) advance sales in Broadway history, will become the one show of the season that must be seen to be believed-or doubted. Superstar tickets cost $60 a pair from your friendly scalper...