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...time is some uncertain date in the 1990s, and the sign of the cross has become an anachronism. A Third and Fourth Vatican Council have come and gone. The Vatican, now thoroughly embroiled in a highly ecumenical superchurch, dutifully processes assignments through World Ecumen Council headquarters in Amsterdam. Priests skitter about the world in gray-green denim fatigues, carrying musette bags and spreading a gospel of social revolution. The father general of an old monastic order called the Albanesians is preparing to preside over the first phases of a new ecumenical breakthrough: dialogue with the Buddhists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Naughts and Crosses | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

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