Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third floor of an old limestone house at 3323 North Kenmore Avenue on Chicago's North Side is the headquarters of the Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church's small (nine members) Society of Clerks Secular of St. Basil, founded in 1931. It is also the rectory of St. Thomas Eastern Orthodox Church and the home of a Stewart-Warner production control clerk. The clerk's name, as written on his doorbell card: "The Very Reverend Cyprian Matthiesen, Society of St. Basil...
John Frederick Matthiesen (Cyprian is his patron saint) is an ascetic-looking, 29-year-old Eastern Orthodox missionary who was raised a Missouri Lutheran. For four years he has been working full-time in the punch-press department at Stewart-Warner (artillery fuses), at $30 a week. Purpose: 1) to support himself, his mother and brother; 2) to earn money to build a church...
...Society of Clerks Secular of St. Basil, Father Matthiesen believes that he has found a nonnational, nonracial avenue for carrying the message of Orthodox Catholicism to Western people in their own terms. So far he has made some 30 converts among the Danes, Swedes, Poles and Germans in the neighborhood of his church at 3716 West Belmont Avenue...
...leaders of North America's 350,000 Russian Orthodox Church members reached a firm and weighty decision: they would not reunite with the mother church in Russia. Reason: the mother church would not back down on its demand for a pledge of loyalty to the Soviet Government...
What is happening to the universe -and how much longer will man survive? Many astrophysicists give man a few billion years more, but believe that his days are numbered as the earth grows cooler. Last week these orthodox views were openly disputed by London's famed Biologist J. B. S. Haldane. Writing in the American Scientist, Haldane advanced a "new theory of the past." Haldane's theory rests on a hypothesis of relativity developed in the '30s by British Cosmologist E. A. Milne. (Most of Milne's reasoning is far too deep for anyone but astrophysicists...