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...many new theological ideas welcome in teaching. Last fortnight The Netherlands' Bernard Jan Cardinal Alfrink returned from Rome after doing some explaining about a controversial high school catechism* course. The course, more than a little untraditional, emphasizes the student's need, as one of its authors puts it, "to believe according to his own way of thinking." It lets students decide for themselves, for instance, whether Jesus was God; it offers the Resurrection as an inspiring belief rather than historical fact. The authors-some 50 theologians, most from the Catholic University of Nijmegen-are convinced that this open...
...John E. Mines, Presiding Bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church, is a genial, soft-spoken man with a self-deprecating sense of humor. Hines recently startled a meeting of San Francisco priests when he called himself "the worst administrator of any Episcopal Presiding Bishop in history." Last fortnight his fellow Episcopal bishops got a greater shock in the mail: a letter from Hines outlining his plan to retire as Presiding Bishop in the spring of 1974, after the triennial general convention next fall can elect a successor. Hines is the first Presiding Bishop in the church's history...
...more radical notion, endorsed in principle by Lord Killanin of Ireland, Brundage's successor as head of the I.O.C., is to continue the Olympic movement without a quadrennial Olympiad. As Lord Killanin points out: "There is too much concentration on the fortnight of the Games rather than on the Olympic movement, which goes on all the time." This is probably the soundest proposal of all. The Games could be spread over a longer period as well as geographically across a nation or even a group of nations. This would lessen the present emphasis on a single spectacle, thus diluting...
...desire to visit the United States and to meet and learn to know her people," Japan's Emperor Hirohito told United Press Correspondent Wilfred Fleisher in 1921. "I greatly regret that I am unable to carry out my wishes on this occasion, but since it is only a fortnight's trip from Japan to the United States, I hope it will only be a deferred pleasure." Hirohito's pleasure has been deferred for 51 years, but the trip is less formidable these days. So the Emperor, now 71, plans to accept President Nixon's invitation...
...past two years, a number of universities have sought out new presidents with special abilities as "crisis managers"-notably McGill of Columbia, Derek Bok of Harvard, Richard Lyman of Stanford. As the disturbances began a fortnight ago, the crisis managers tried to control the students with a mixture of conciliation and firmness. The presidents of the eight Ivy League schools and M.I.T. issued a joint denunciation of the renewed bombing of North Viet Nam, but they also announced their determination to keep their institutions open...