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...under the auspices of U.S. Catholic bishops and the three major Lutheran denominations in the U.S., have already reached broad areas of agreement on such thorny issues as the role of the ministry and the significance of the central sacrament of the Eucharist. The latest paper states that "Christ wills for his church a unity [that] must be manifest in the world," and concurs that "a special responsibility for this may be entrusted to one individual minister, under the Gospel." Moreover, it notes, "the Bishop of Rome," whom Catholics already accept in this role, might "in the future function...
...another bottle and a portable television set; I lost the TV right away and came up by an old building next to the water; meanwhile, everybody has jumped off the fucking boat and it's hauling ass for the dock all by itself when it stalls; so help me Christ, if that thing had hit that dock we would have been in jail for a hundred years, or something; I get out of the water and run up on this catwalk at the back of this building, and I run around the corner, bang!, no more goddamn catwalk...
...United Church of Christ--like all other groups filing Africa resolutions, a member of the Church Project on United States Investments in South Africa--has filed a resolution asking Gulf Oil to publish information on its operations in Angola. This is the issue that led to President Bok's establishment of the ACSR in 1972. Angola is a colony of the Portuguese government where Portugal consistently uses military force to quell black nationalists' movements for independence. Gulf operates in Angola with the approval of the Portuguese government and is in fact a major supplier of oil to Portugal--so critics...
...National Council of Churches of Christ and the United Church of Christ Board for World Ministries have filed a resolution called on Ford Motor Company to issue a report on its operations in the Phillipines, focusing on employment and employee relations policy...
...many; fewer than 100 of the seminary's 650 prestrike students are expected to drift back. Nearly 400 of the rest signed up last week for a "Concordia Seminary in Exile" that began holding classes at St. Louis University (a Jesuit school) and the United Church of Christ's Eden Theological Seminary. Both host schools will certify the rebel seminarians' degrees, as will Chicago's Lutheran School of Theology, the largest seminary of a sister denomination, the more liberal Lutheran Church in America...