Word: christs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From Fat Daddy Chico, the bookie who, with his entourage occupies the first row of seats, to the "suits"--the Wall Streeters who rode the 4 train uptown to take in a game--to the elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who somehow always manage to comprise a significant chunk of the bleacher attendance, a mass of humanity totally blind to distinctions of class, race and creed bound together around a man who had been chased from the pastime in disgrace for cocaine addiction...
...cloistered and influencedexclusively by the priestly life and thescriptures. When his father dies and the othermonks flee a famine, the boy is loosed upon thecountry. Having never encountered humans before,he viciously survives the hunger by murdering andcannibalizing those whom he has been taught inLatin to treat as Christ. He continues in similarfashion in Newfoundland, as a pirate terrorizingthe British Colony there until the day theCatholics return and he falls back into theautomatic regimen of his youth...
...Thrilla in Manila," Jesus Christ vs. every man's killa. Sin and Death's got the whole world gettin' illa So I praise God for the blood spilla...
...scientist and a Catholic, I believe the Shroud of Turin is the burial cloth of Christ [RELIGION, April 20]. Perhaps the only conclusion that will satisfy everyone is that for those who have true faith, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not, no explanation is possible. WILLIAM J. KEPPLER South Miami...
Unlike Eastern religions, Christianity saw history not as an endless cycle but as an ascent to a magnificent goal. The special significance of the year 2000 emerged from prophecies about Christ's Second Coming. By the reckoning of early Christian scholars, human history would end after 6,000 years, each thousand years corresponding to one day of creation. Some believed that there were 2,000 years between Adam and Abraham and 2,000 between Abraham and Jesus, and that after 2,000 more (constituting the Christian era) Jesus would return and reign in glory for 1,000 years--hence...