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Since there is no explicit New Testament authorization for it, the churches celebrate neither Easter nor Christmas, have neither bishops, presbyters nor any central authority. Each congregation is autonomous, and ministers govern with the help of lay elders, seldom let anyone call them anything but mister...
...Easter Island," by John Ferno: Documentary in form, the film shifted back and forth from panoramic vistas of the island's famous statues to detailed close-ups of the missing eyes, ears, noses and hands of inmates in a leprosarium...
...their first American school, but Moses and Raphael Soyer were accomplished in another kind of language that quickly endeared them to their teachers. Whenever a holiday approached, they were set to work decorating the halls and classrooms, for no one else in the school could paint a livelier Easter rabbit, a jollier Santa Claus or a spookier Halloween witch than the Soyer boys. Today, at 62, the twins-as well as their younger brother Isaac-are noted artists whose quiet and moody paintings change little but never date...
Commenting on the Pope's dramatic call for world peace, made last Friday before diplomatic delegates assembled in the Sistine Chapel, Oberman said that the Pope's message is possibly "more significant than the usual Easter type of peace talk...
...maybe three years." Some Roman observers suspect that so long a council would come close to bankrupting the Vatican; the first session alone will cost the church at least $6,400,000. Most council experts believe that Vatican II will convene from Oct. 11 to Dec. 8, return after Easter for a second session of about two months; if a third session is necessary, it will meet in the fall...