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...figures. All five pieces were played with intelligence and imaginative registrations. Once again John Adams has provided an outstanding program, bringing together two of the area's very finest choral groups in a sensitive, thoughtful presentation. He did as much with sacred music as is possible in a distinctly secular...
...like Henry Adams-between one world that's dead and another that's powerless to be born. But there's also an exhilarating feeling of being on the brink of a new adventure." Some experimental groups disperse because their members opt for marriage or careers as secular single women. Despite the attrition, there are now at least 50 noncanonical nuns' groups, ranging in membership from three to nearly...
Marlboro Country. In addition to the internal reforms being made by many communities similar to the Loretto, U.S. nuns have organized their reform activities in a proliferation of groups that bear a marked similarity to secular Women's Lib federations. The feeling among many sisters, says Jesuit John C. Haughey, an associate editor of America magazine, is that the church has been "Marlboro Country as far back as they can see, and will continue to be so as far in the future as they care to look." The organizations include small ethnic groups such as the National Black Sisters...
...shows no sign of bending his definition of religious life to accommodate the new nuns. In an exhortation to sisters promulgated last summer, the Pontiff warned against deviations from "the essential commitments" of religious life. Last month the Vatican explicitly forbade nuns to discard "distinctive religious garb" for secular dress. Besides the Pope and many of the all-male hierarchy, some sisters are openly opposed to what they consider the excesses of renewal. About 120 of them have organized their views in a group called Consortium Perfectae Caritatis (Association of Perfect Charity). Nevertheless, the new nuns are confident that they...
Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus is both spiritual leader of 500,000 Greek Cypriots and President of the island's Greek-Turkish secular government. Lately, his problems have been mostly temporal, as the Greek government in Athens pressured him with humiliating ultimatums in an effort to either throttle his power or force him out of office (TIME, Feb. 28). Last week, for a change, the archbishop was experiencing ecclesiastical complications. At the annual synod of the Cypriot hierarchy, three bishops invoked a canon law-unused for at least a hundred years-forbidding bishops to hold church and state posts simultaneously...