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...name in vain, can his name be used for a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine? At its annual meeting in Washington this fall, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops voted no. They wrote an elaborately polite letter to Navy Secretary John Lehman, saying that naming a sub Corpus Christi-Latin for body of Christ-"is very nearly sacrilegious...
...Navy has so far resisted the request to change the name. The sub is not named after a sacred mystery of the faith but, the Navy says, the Texas city (pop. 332,000) where the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station is the largest employer. Besides, a World War II Navy ship was called Corpus Christi, and vessels today are named, indirectly, after saints. For instance, the Santa Barbara carries the name of the patroness of artillery men. Last April at the sub's christening-yes, christening-Secretary Lehman, a Roman Catholic, argued that the Second Vatican Council...
...history of a religious community, events in the life of the founder become paradigmatic for succeeding generations. For the early followers of Jesus, martyrdom itself became a prominent form of imitatio Christi. So I, as a doctoral student in comparative religion at harvard Divinity School and a Unification Church member, sat in the courtroom during Rev. Moon's arraignment in Manhattan yesterday, pondering the religious significance of this event...
...McCormack Patterson Corpus Christi, Texas...
...after a French draft horse, is being built in a Sunnyvale, Calif., plant by 17 engineers, some of them former employees of NASA. This week the device will be loaded aboard a flatbed truck and hauled to a launch pad at Matagorda Island, about 50 miles northeast of Corpus Christi, Texas, a site that NASA once considered for launches. After testing the prototype, the company hopes to conduct its first orbital flight next year...