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...Arthur J. Moss, Edward Duffle Jr. and Leonard M. Pagan of Los Angeles...
...infield Orlando Cepeda's eye trouble may prove more troublesome than his current hold-out. Chuch Hiller, Jose Pagan, and Jim Davenport are competently slick, but nothing more. As for the staff, Billy Pierce is 36 and Jack Sanford 34. Each had a peak year in '62 and it would be hubris to assume repeat performances (even though Sanford comes from Wellesley and is highly praised in the Globe...
...remnants of a library used by a community of Gnostics in the 5th century. The texts are copies of sacred writings from earlier centuries, when the church was struggling to disentangle itself from the early heresy of Gnosticism, which blended Christian ideas with mystical elements from pagan religions of the East. Published last week was the first English translation of one of the most important Nag Hammadi documents-The Gospel of Philip (Harper & Row; $3.75), edited and annotated by British Scholar Robert McL. Wilson...
...Spain. The real Catholicism, say its most wary Protestant critics, is not to be found in the democratically coexisting church in the U.S. but in 99.7%-Catholic Spain. There, arch-conservative church leaders have for years treated Protestants with something of the hostility, though not the violence, that pagan Rome displayed toward the early Christians. Spanish laws theoretically grant the country's tiny (30,000) Protestant minority the right to the unhampered private exercise of their faith. But Protestant churches have no legal standing, and must operate as "foreign commercial firms." Missionaries have been fined and jailed for distributing...
Believer from Pagan. Church leaders readily grant that all is not yet apostolic. The suburbs remain a center of concern, and some ministers feel that a vast majority of Christians still have no sense of commitment at all. "When I look out into the market place." complains one Catholic priest, "I can no longer distinguish the believer from the pagan. I can distinguish the Jehovah's witness; I can distinguish the followers of Father Divine -but not the followers of the traditional faiths." A majority of clergymen gloomily accept the guilt of the churches for failing to administer...