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...content. Young religious rights activists are bolder than their elders. The official Communist response to new religious stirrings has been modified reprisal. Five of the Christian Seminar members are under arrest; others are being harassed or undergoing forced "psychiatric" treatment. In January authorities arrested Father Dmitri Dudko, a Moscow priest whose fiery sermons attacked official atheism. In what dissidents consider a pre-Olympics "cleanup," many other prominent Orthodox believers were rounded up in late 1979 and early 1980. Among them: Father Gleb Yakunin, an Orthodox priest who appealed to the regime and the World Council of Churches for religious liberty...
...teacher's view, in short, of why teachers cannot teach is that teachers are not allowed to teach. "The teacher today is expected to be mother, father, priest or rabbi, peacekeeper, police officer, playground monitor and lunchroom patrol," says David Imig, executive director of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. "Over and above that, he's supposed to teach Johnny and Mary how to read." Adds Edith Shain, a veteran kindergarten teacher at the Hancock Park School in Los Angeles: "The teacher doesn't know who she has to please...
...Pope's statement that holding an appointive office is acceptable, while holding an elective office is not, is contrary to Christian philosophy. In Father Drinan's 27 years as a priest, he must have discovered that the founder of his church was a man totally involved in and a part of the world he lived...
...controversy as well as cash. Jews and liberal Christians alike have charged the play with antiSemitism. The recounting of Christ's Passion, though it is drawn from the New Testament, embroiders considerably upon the biblical accounts. The florid script, rewritten from older versions in 1860 by Parish Priest Joseph Alois Daisenberger, fixed blame for the Crucifixion totally upon the Sanhedrin and the Jewish rabble, which amateur actors portrayed with much shaking of angry fists and fiendish cries for Jesus' blood. After the Second Vatican Council declared in 1965 that Jews-ancient or modern-bear no collective guilt...
...following Protestant and Eastern Orthodox churches, which use both bread and wine on all occasions. American Catholics have also taken to using "altar girls" as well as boys to help with the service, though that practice has always been officially against the rules too. Said a disgruntled Washington, D.C., priest: "We do all of these things, and we're going to keep on doing them so long as they encourage people to worship in God's house...