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...celibate, Mass-celebrating monk styling himself a Lutheran? The Great Reformer of Wittenberg, who by word and deed rejected celibacy, the Mass and monasticism, would have flown into one of his typical Teutonic tizzies. Neither Catholic fish nor Protestant fowl, "Father" Kreinheder represents a syncretistic mishmash equally offensive to both. One wonders if he has a mezuzah on the doorpost of his monastery just to be sure all bases are covered...
Brooks was the only other wrestler on the varsity to advance beyond the preliminaries. Wrestling at 177 lbs., he won a 10-8 decision over Wittenberg of Cornell, but then lost to Gill of Penn State, 6-2, in the quarter-finals...
Fred Pereira, at 177, won the Crimson's easiest match as he decisioned Cornell's Mike Wittenberg, 12-4. Sophomore Ben Brooks followed Pereira in the most exciting match of the afternoon, scoring a last-minute reversal to edge Keith Olin...
Every schoolboy thinks he knows how the Reformation began: on Oct. 31, 1517, Augustinian Friar Martin Luther took hammer in hand and nailed his list of 95 angry theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. That challenge to church teaching has always been said to mark Luther's real break with Rome, and for more than 400 years Protestants have celebrated the anniversary of this clerical Sarajevo...
...that. Iserloh points out that the writings of Luther himself never mentioned nailing the theses on a door; the first record of the story, in fact, was written after the heretic's death in 1546 by his disciple, Philipp Melanchthon, who was nowhere near Wittenberg at the time. Iserloh also cites a letter Luther wrote to Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, in 1518, stating firmly that "no one knew of my intentionto dispute-not even my best friends...