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Sacrilegious Sub...
...National Conference of Catholic Bishops feels the naming of a nuclear sub Corpus Christi is "very near sacrilegious" [Dec. 21]. What then do they call the methods of their "brother," Father Corrado Catani [Aug. 17], in promoting his "Jesus-Jeans," in which he uses a titillating Playboy-type poster bearing the caption He Who Loves Me, Follows Me? Now that I would call sacrilegious...
Still, Gaddafi has failed to realize his real ambitions. He believes that he is Nasser's true heir in the Middle East and nurtures a dream of establishing an Islamic sub-Saharan republic stretching from Senegal to the Sudan. "My problem is I have no country to lead, though I am a great leader," he has complained. "He has a very clear idea of what he wants," says a U S Government official. "But as leader of only 3 million people, he has very unrealistic hopes of putting together a pan-Arab vision based on Nasser's dreams...
...Lord's name in vain, can his name be used for a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine? At its annual meeting in Washington this fall, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops voted no. They wrote an elaborately polite letter to Navy Secretary John Lehman, saying that naming a sub Corpus Christi-Latin for body of Christ-"is very nearly sacrilegious...
...Navy has so far resisted the request to change the name. The sub is not named after a sacred mystery of the faith but, the Navy says, the Texas city (pop. 332,000) where the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station is the largest employer. Besides, a World War II Navy ship was called Corpus Christi, and vessels today are named, indirectly, after saints. For instance, the Santa Barbara carries the name of the patroness of artillery men. Last April at the sub's christening-yes, christening-Secretary Lehman, a Roman Catholic, argued that the Second Vatican Council...