Word: rite
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Great Schism between these two branches of Christianity is traditionally dated from mutual excommunications hurled in 1054 by Rome and Constantinople (as Istanbul was called until 1930). In 1204 Crusaders sacked Constantinople and temporarily installed a Latin-rite Patriarch. Today there are still differences about such matters as divorce (the Orthodox permit it on grounds of adultery and allow no more than three marriages in a lifetime), and especially the Nicene Creed. The Orthodox insist on the original wording of the creed, in which the Holy Spirit "proceeds from the Father." Catholicism adds that the Spirit proceeds from "the Father...
...Christianity first reached it 1,100 years ago, the Ukraine has been strongly religious. Located southwest of Moscow, the region, with a population of 50 million, is agriculturally rich and deeply nationalist. In the 1930s Stalin all but crushed the autonomous Ukrainian Orthodox Church and in 1946 expunged Eastern-rite Roman Catholicism in favor of the more easily controlled Russian Orthodox Church. Even so, the Ukraine by official count still has 4,000 of the 11,000 Orthodox churches now open in the U.S.S.R.-only a fraction of the 53,000 churches in Russia before 1917. Protestant Ukrainians have been...
There are no Eastern-rite Catholic parishes left, the Metropolitan says. Despite reports in the West of 300 to 500 underground clergy, only "old priests and a few people" are left. Surprisingly, he declares that "the Soviet state is not an atheistic state. It consists of believers and nonbelievers. There are periods of strong antireligious propaganda and others of less...
...American Graffiti, Screenwriters Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz collaborated with Director George Lucas to transform high school graduation into a rite of mythic proportions. Lucas has moved on to more celestial myths, but his former partners remain preoccupied with the pangs of growing up. In French Postcards, Huyck and Katz try to create a true sequel to Graffiti: their new film is a rueful comedy about American students whose lives change dramatically during a year abroad. But this time the director is Huyck, not Lucas, and the results are deflating. French Postcards'comic anecdotes do not coalesce into...
...gametime, the Garden is packed for the first time since patron saint John Havlicek's number was retired in ceremonies last year. This year's rite is just as impressive. "And now, the starting lineup for the Boston Celtics. "From Indiana State"--ROAR--and for the next three minutes, Section 80 and the entire Garden stand up and yell. Someone rushes to the baseline and releases a pigeon, a real nice gesture except that the bird quickly disappears in the bowels of the scoreboard...