Word: orthodox
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...Pope allowed for expanded use of the old-rite Latin Mass, which contains a Good Friday prayer that offends some Jews. A few days later, the Vatican's doctrinal office reiterated Benedict's stance - first stated when he was cardinal - that non-Catholic denominations of Christianity, excepting the Orthodox, are not true Churches because they cannot trace their hierachies back to the apostles. (The Orthodox, however, are a reduced Church because they do not recognize the primacy of the Apostle Peter's successor, the Pope.) It is as clear as ever that Benedict will not mince words in laying...
...campaign galvanized many conservative Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox Jews...
...example, in U.S. v. Seeger, the Court approved “conscientious objector status” for people who held a “sincere and meaningful” belief which “occupies a place in the life of its possessor parallel to that filled by the orthodox belief...
...climate wars are far from over, and there are still dissidents emerging to challenge the green mainstream. Unlike past skeptics, they accept the basics of global warming but question its severity and challenge the orthodox faith that Kyoto Protocol-style mandatory carbon cuts are the best way to save the planet. Call them the bad boys of environmentalism: gadflies like the Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg, who just came out with the book Cool It, and rebel greens like the political consultants Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, who detail their apostasy in Break Through. While their solutions may be flawed...
...other Danilov bells will remain in Lowell House until Commencement in June, when they will sound for the last time before returning to Moscow and being replaced with the new bells. Harvard’s new set was sanctified by the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church at a lavish ceremony in Moscow in July. A Russian metals tycoon, Viktor Vekselberg, reportedly paid millions of dollars to bring the bells home and cast new ones for Harvard. —Staff writer Victoria B. Kabak can be reached at vkabak@fas.harvard.edu...