Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wills for his church a unity [that] must be manifest in the world," and concurs that "a special responsibility for this may be entrusted to one individual minister, under the Gospel." Moreover, it notes, "the Bishop of Rome," whom Catholics already accept in this role, might "in the future function in ways" useful to the broader Christian church...
...commission is still studying the most controversial issue of all: papal infallibility. And last week's statement emphasized that for Lutherans, any function of papal primacy must not "subvert Christian freedom." Moreover, none of the theologians' dramatic agreements so far have been translated by either communion into effective action, such as the approval of exchanges in celebrating the Eucharist. The statement suggested a growing impatience for such a move. One of the questions posed for the Catholic Church was whether "in the expectation of a foreseeable reconciliation," it is ready to accept the Lutherans as "sister churches, which...
...gymnastics club, more than 10 years old, has received no financial help from the department in recent years. When the club coach resigned in 1972, the department transferred his $500 annual salary to some other department function...
Gomes also found that Widener Library and Harvard's "smorgasbord of courses" did not hold solutions for either the world's problems or his own increasingly-agonizing spiritual concerns. "Problems of the soul and spiritual identity--one's place, one's function--these questions were not going to be resolved by academia," he reasoned. "I reached a new view of what the church...
...safety of nuclear reactions built by General Electric and Westinghouse, in which Harvard held a total of $26 million worth of stock. Wilson said Harvard should publicize the problem of the plants' safety even though no shareholder group was doing so, as part of the University's function, "to educate and inform people." The ACSR didn't dispute him, but in its first year it considered only matters where shareholders were sponsoring resolutions...