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...particularly in the Ukraine, long the source of the majority of Orthodox priests and much of the church's income. A schismatic bishop has proclaimed the rebirth of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, which spurns Moscow's centralized religious rule. Even more threatening is the sudden resurgence of Eastern Rite Catholicism in the western Ukraine. The millions of Catholic believers follow Orthodox liturgy but are loyal to the Pope. After World War II, the Eastern Rite church was abolished at a Stalinist-controlled synod, followed by a bloody repression in which church property was given to the Russian Orthodox. Somehow...
...implacable and bloodthirsty conservatism of Aztec art that forces itself on you first, even in the Met's galleries, so far from the real context of the sacrificial pyramids and the thousands of other effigies that make up its body. Here was an absolutely ordered society whose chief religious rite was human sacrifice -- penitential rituals, on an appalling scale, whose aim was nothing less than to keep reality in motion. The Mesoamericans believed that the world could stop at any moment, that the very cosmos was always on the brink of dissolution, its cycles maintained only by sacrifice...
...small part, by a willingness to cause the deaths of others. After the U.S. invasion of Panama, President Bush exulted that no one could call him "timid"; he was at last a "macho man." The press, in even more primal language, hailed him for succeeding in an "initiation rite" by demonstrating his "willingness to shed blood...
Prominent business organizations represented in the group include Baybanks, the Bank of New England, New England Electric and Stride Rite, Shattuck said...
...lower 48 states -- and an even greater portion of the nation's legend and romance. Sitting Bull warred and wept on the plains. General George Custer wandered there with the Seventh Cavalry, his pack of greyhounds, and his band playing the march Garry Owen, then galloped to his dreadful rite of immortality at Little Big Horn. Sixty million buffalo were mindlessly slaughtered on the cinnamon land swells. When the plow came, the Dust Bowl was born...