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Frank McLaughlin's philosophy of basketball matches his proselytizing spirit off the court. Harvard's new head coach is trying to convert as many people as possible to his creed of bornagain Harvard basketball while at the same time converting his players to a fastbreaking, end-to-end brand of hoop...
...provoked an unprecedented dialogue with the church by proffering assurances that his party not only respects religion but sees it as a possible stimulus toward building a true socialist society. Criticizing religious "intolerence" in Eastern Europe, Berlinguer said-heresy of Communist heresies-that Marxism was not an "ideological creed" but an analytical method, and that his party was "lay and democratic, and as such not theist, atheist or antitheist...
...Paul to choose a new primate last week, the tensions between the church's old-country past and New World present were plain. The cathedral's choir insisted on singing in Old Church Slavonic, eschewing the English now used in most O.C.A. parishes. When it came time for the creed, however, one of the visiting priests began chanting hesitantly in English, "I believe in one God ..." Joyously, the entire congregation joined him. Soon after, in a major break with tradition, the church chose its first American-born leader...
...difficult to tell how many "born again" Christians there are in pagan Harvard, although HRCF figures help a little. Fellowship executives estimate there are about 70 to 100 core members of the group. Since one of the strong corollaries of the Christians' creed is the desirability of sharing their faith with others, they are most likely to be found in one or another of the University religious organizations, like a new Christian athletes group, small Bible seminars, a "discipleship" organized by the Fellowship, or in a more diverse group like the Catholic Student Center...
...resigning the office that he has on occasion observed to be more a burden than a joy. He fueled such discussion years ago by visiting the tomb of the reluctant Pope Celestine V, who abdicated the papacy.* Moreover, Paul revealed his attitudes on the aging when he de - creed that cardinals who reach age 80 are too old to vote on his successor - and that bishops who lead dioceses must submit resignations...