Word: orthodox
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...reported that it found traces of Sudan 1 in a batch of chili powder in its Worcester Sauce. The alert led to the recall of more than 400 products. The other countries affected are importers of foodstuffs from Britain. Tarnished Temple GREECE Archbishop Christodoulos, the head of Greece's Orthodox Church, rejected calls by several senior clergymen to step down amid a corruption scandal that has seen a number of clerics facing allegations of bribing judges, drug dealing and theft. Christodoulos did announce the suspension of two close aides, but said he was "called upon to lead a cleanup...
That more orthodox approach is proving as popular as a revival meeting. Priests and lay people in traditional Catholic strongholds in the Northeast and Midwest are distressed by a plunge in regular Mass attendance to just 30% of the registered congregation in many parishes, by a chronic shortage of priests and by the financial burden of paying off settlements for sexual-abuse cases. But Catholics in places like Charlotte say the church is being born again in the cradle of born-again Christianity--the South. The Catholic population in Charlotte is growing almost 10% a year, and the ratio...
...largest religious denomination in the U.S., at 65 million strong, will debate what "truer and purer" means. But one thing seems certain: Southern Catholics, influenced in no small degree by their morally hard-line Protestant neighbors, as well as the strong piety of Latin America, are decidedly more orthodox in their faith. Their explosive growth could eventually reverse national polls in which a majority of Catholics say they can disagree with church teachings, even on abortion, and remain good Catholics. Indeed, many Sunbelt Catholics say their mission is to rescue the church from what they consider to be the murky...
...dogma of Pope John Paul II, is more conservative than its predecessors who came of age in the 1960s and '70s in the wake of Vatican II. Many, like the new parochial vicar at St. Mark, the Rev. Timothy Reid, 34, an Indiana native, are drawn to the more orthodox spirit they see in Southern pews. Says Reid: "Here it's more vibrant because we're creating a Catholic culture almost from scratch...
CAPITAL D An Orthodox Muslim, he raps about Allah and foreign policy and won't perform while alcohol is being served