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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...U.S.S.R., the dominant Orthodox Church has been subservient to the regimes in both Bulgaria and Rumania, remaining mute when the leaderships closed churches and repressed clergy. Rumania's huge Eastern Rite Catholic community has forcibly lived underground since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cross Meets Kremlin: Gorbachev and Pope John Paul II | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

Prompted by those alarming demographic trends, the bishops endorsed a new rite that, if approved by the Vatican, can be used in place of Sunday Mass in parishes where no priest is available. The "Order for Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest" allows a bishop to designate a deacon or a nonordained sister, brother or lay member to lead a prayer service based on the Scriptures. The bishops took care to see that such services will not mimic the Mass. The rules do provide, however, for the addition of an optional Communion service using sacramental bread previously consecrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Priestless Rites | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...when he felt the building begin to shake. He ran into the street as the facade gave way, burying his Jeep under an avalanche of bricks. "I would have been finished," Valles marveled. No one was injured. Yet in nearby Watsonville (pop. 23,550), the Bake-Rite Bakery caved in, fatally smashing a passerby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earthquake | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...Maturation Rite...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: A Crackdown on Drinking? | 10/27/1989 | See Source »

...past, some college officials have suggested experimentation with alcohol is an unavoidable "maturation rite," Johnson says. Adherents of this view cite surveys tracking college classes over a four-year period, which suggest that although students tend to drink excessively during their first years, consumption decreases by their senior years...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: A Crackdown on Drinking? | 10/27/1989 | See Source »

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