Word: patriarchalism
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Under normal circumstances, election as Patriarch of a church of 40 million souls would be the desire of a priest's lifetime. That is probably not so for Metropolitan Pimen of Kolomna, 60, who was chosen last week by the Holy Synod, meeting in Zagorsk outside Moscow, to head the Russian Orthodox Church. A pliable moderate who has been caretaker head of the church since the death of Patriarch Alexei 13 months ago, Pimen faces enough problems to tax an archangel...
Died. Gregory Peter Cardinal Agagianian, 75, scholarly Armenian-born prelate and twice (1958 and 1963) a leading non-Italian candidate for Pope; of cancer; in Rome. After studying for the priesthood in Rome, Agagianian returned to Soviet Georgia as a parish priest and in 1937 became Beirut-based patriarch of 100,000 Armenian Catholics. Nine years later he was made the second Armenian cardinal in the history of the church. The Vatican's resident expert on Soviet affairs and master of eleven languages, he also headed Roman Catholic missions throughout the world from...
...Harvard Business Review, "the business is an instrument, an extension of himself. So he has great difficulty giving up his instrument, his source of social power." Levinson, a visiting professor of psychology at the Harvard Business School, says that this intense ego involvement makes it hard for the patriarch to delegate responsibility and almost impossible for him to step down. Many sons of self-made titans, he warns, have to cope with long hours, low pay and an agonizing wait for the old man's retirement...
...building has become a large part of our experience of the center, of our experience of ourselves, together, here, for the first time. From the first tremendous excitement of discovering this building at the end of our long beautiful march of solidarity through Cambridge (where Harvard looms like a patriarch over the city) to our active participation in making the building a real center-cleaning it, painting the walls, cooking meals, fixing the plumbing and the electric wiring, sleeping in it, dancing in it, discovering ourselves and one another in it-we have brought life into the building...
...distrust of theory and doctrine was summed up by Liang K'ai, an artist of the early 13th century, who captured in a few exquisitely jagged brush strokes an illiterate patriarch, howling with glee, tearing up a sutra, or sacred text. It is an Oriental parallel to St. Paul's remark that "the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life...