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Confronting the relentless arithmetic of human reproduction is a bit like reading one of Futurist Herman Kahn's nuclear scenarios. One of them deals in "mega-deaths," and the other in what might be called "mega-lives," but the pall of a weirdly objectified apocalypse hangs over both. By the year 2000, some accountants of population figure, the number of the planet's inhabitants will double to 7 billion; by 2025, it will be 15 billion, by 2050, 30 billion, so that in less than a century there will be ten people living for every one now existing...
...Aleuts against the traders who exploited them. He ran a school and orphanage for the natives, among whom-even in his own lifetime-he was popularly regarded as a saint. Last week the Orthodox Church in America made it official. In richly traditional ceremonies on Kodiak Island in Alaska, "Herman the Wonderworker" was formally canonized...
...Herman is the first American saint on the Orthodox calendar. He was also in the first group of Russian Orthodox clergy to come to Alaska in 1794, just two years after the Russian-American Company established a settlement on Kodiak. The canonization ceremonies, accordingly, were lavish: a three-hour liturgy climaxing four days of celebration. Nine Orthodox bishops, in jeweled crowns and brocaded robes, presided. Pilgrims from all over the U.S. jammed the tiny wooden church in Kodiak. At the end of the nighttime liturgy, St. Herman's wooden coffin was borne out of the church and around...
...Last spring the 850,000-member church, formerly known as the Metropolia, gained Moscow's grudging approval of its self-governing status and its canonical legitimacy-(TIME, March 16; April 13). Now the canonization gives it international dignity; Finnish and Bulgarian Orthodox churches, for example, promptly accepted St. Herman. Others are expected to follow...
...however. One bitter rivalry persists, and it produced a second, competitive canonization for St. Herman. The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, a splinter group of anti-Communist persuasion, maintains that the parent Russian Orthodox Church in the Soviet Union-and any churches loyal to it-lost their legitimacy by dealing with the atheistic Soviet government. The leaders of the Church Outside Russia accordingly do not recognize the actions of other Russian Orthodox groups. Thus on the same weekend as the Kodiak ceremonies. New York's Metropolitan Philaret led a glittering procession down Geary Boulevard in San Francisco...