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Negotiations with the Kremlin are part of a larger Vatican strategy aimed at closing the 900-year-old schism between Roman Catholicism and the Eastern Orthodox, the bulk of whom live in Communist countries. For years the Vatican has been quietly working with world Orthodoxy, including the Russians, to settle various long-standing obstacles to reconciliation. One of the nastiest is the existence of pockets of Catholics loyal to Rome within countries in which the Orthodox predominate. The newest round of discussions on these Eastern Rite Catholics will be held next week at the New Valamo monastery in Finland...
With 2,135,000 adherents and 11,000 churches in the U.S., the denomination is one of the Pentecostal groups that took root in the early 1900s. A gathering of pastors formed the Assemblies in 1914 and almost immediately faced down a schism by sticking firmly to orthodox doctrine. Then and now the group's born-again converts undergo "baptism in the Holy Spirit," an experience that must be accompanied by speaking in tongues, or glossolalia...
...When schism split the East bloc in 1960, Moscow and Beijing became clinched in an acrimonious contest for ideological supremacy. The Kremlin no doubt felt relief at the end of the Maoist era. Nonetheless, the mixture of central planning and market economics that developed in China starting in 1978 initially prompted criticism that Beijing was heading down the capitalist road. Since Gorbachev launched his own brand of Communist reconstruction early last year, mutual suspicion has given way to cautious interest and growing - cooperation. Last year China exported $1.2 billion worth of goods to the Soviet Union, compared with only...
...bitter debate is a result of the rise of Critical Legal Studies (CLS) and, in turn, its vocal opponents at Harvard Law School. The schism between these two relatively small but intellectually agressive factions has grown wider and more public over the past few years--leading to full-fledged scholarly war during the past six months on the battlefield of tenure decisions...
...THERE'S THE 'peace through trust guys' and the 'peace through strength guys,''' an Army general said a few years ago, sizing up the chief division between nuclear strategists. Not quite. The schism is really between the 'peace through superiority guys' and the 'peace through parity-because-superiority-is unattainable/too costly/too dangerous guys...