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Breadth to Scholars. In Italy, reli gious publishers have their own unofficial catalogue of bishops, distinguishing the easy marks from tough critics. Ital ian imprimatur seekers have found that bishops of smaller dioceses tend to be much faster in approving books. For that reason, the Sons of Mary Immaculate, who operate a huge publishing house, and a bookstore only a few hun dred yards from the Vatican, get most of their imprimaturs from Bishop Luigi Morstabilini of Brescia, in northern Italy. A theologian himself, Morstabilini has been discovered by other publishers as well, issues an imprimatur every two or three...
Prestige of Science. Faith in God survived scientific attack only when the churches came to realize that the reli gious language of the Bible is what Theologian Krister Stendahl calls "poetry-plus, rather than science-minus." Nowadays not even fundamentalists are upset by the latest cosmological theories of astronomers. Quasars, everyone agrees, neither prove nor disprove divine creation; by pushing back the boundaries of knowledge 8 billion light years without finding a definite answer, they do, in a way, admit its possibility. Nonetheless, science still presents a challenge to faith?in a new and perhaps more dangerous...
...meters), the javelin, and in such curiosities in the U.S. as the hop-step-and-jump, the walking race and the steeplechase. They also boast strong men in the broad jump and discus: Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, who recently broke Ralph Boston's broad jump record with a prodi gious leap of 27 ft. 3 in., and Vladimir Trusenev, who last month set a new discus record of 202 ft. 2½ in. But the U.S.'s Boston will be tough to beat at home. And so will the top U.S. discus thrower, Al Oerter, who was the first...
...first woman, the Fali Eve. The toad asked the woman to put plugs into her lips, shape her mouth like the wide palate of the toad, thus acquiring some of the toad's own strength and wisdom. No aids to beauty, the plugs were truly reli gious objects, passed on from mother to daughter. As told by women of the Sare tribe, however, the legend differs slightly. They believe that the first woman climbed down from heaven on a beanstalk, on her arrival was already wearing the plugs given to her in heaven. To be strong, fer tile...
Altho.ugh the Doukhobors, a Russian reli gious sect, are usually thrifty and peace-loving, eat no flesh, drink no wine, use no tobacco, their conscientious clashes with the Government have been numerous, made fine headlines. They resent provincial schools so much that they sometimes burn them. Believers in going naked, they occasionally scandalize their neighbors by bare-skin parades protesting against the Government...