Word: orthodox
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DIED. Metropolitan Nikodim, 48, Russian Orthodox Archbishop of Leningrad and Novgorod; of a heart attack during an audience with Pope John Paul I; in Vatican City. Consecrated a bishop in 1960 and an archbishop a year later, Nikodim served as a president of the World Council of Churches. Though he refused to criticize Moscow's restrictions on religious freedom, he was respected by other denominational leaders for his ecumenism. Nikodim headed his church's delegation at the accession of the new Pope, who administered his last rites...
...would have done well as an entertainer; happily, he has done more than that, and succeeded on both counts. For Levine's uniqueness, his drive as a character, comes not from his charm or his vision or his money, but from his Jewishness. He exudes Jewishness--not the Orthodox-rabbi variety, but the every-day brand, with all the stereotypical strengths and weaknesses. But Levine is not a cardboard man; he snatches up all the stereotypes in himself and twists them, turns them around, shatters them as any real person does just by living, and lets them color his life...
...male. Objected the Rev. Elizabeth Weisner of Washington, B.C., one of some 150 women who have already been ordained: "A priest is a priest is a priest. The Sacrament is unchanged by the person celebrating it." A bigger stumbling block was opposition from the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, particularly since Anglicans like to consider themselves a kind of ecumenical bridge between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. The greatest obstacle, however, was the real threat of that rarity in Anglicanism-schism. After the Episcopal Church, the U.S. branch of Anglicanism, voted narrowly to ordain women priests two years...
...proposal, informally made to Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman in Austria, that the Begin government respond to his Jerusalem peace initiative with a small gesture of good faith. Sadat had suggested that Israel return El Arish, the capital of the Sinai, and historic Mount Sinai, site of the Greek orthodox monastery of St. Catherine's. If El Arish were returned to Egyptian sovereignty, the President hinted, it could be used as the site for new peace talks. As for Mount Sinai, Sadat hoped to lay the cornerstone for an ecumenical center containing a Christian church, an Islamic mosque...
...restored" church. While standard-brand Christianity insists that God is a spirit. Mormons believe that he inhabits a body of flesh and bone. In fact the Mormon God was once a man himself, and Mormon men can hope to become gods themselves in the afterlife. The Mormons reject such orthodox doctrines as the Trinity and original sin. In their complex eschatology, Jesus will return to establish his kingdom's capital at Independence...