The Shepherd, October 2004
NEWS SECTION, 2
PATRIARCH EXPRESSES DISAPPOINTMENT IN AMERICAN ARCHDIOCESE
HIS ALL-HOLINESS, Patriarch Bartholomeos I, has, according to a report in the “National Herald,” expressed a great deal of disappointment in the conduct of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. He specifically raised four issues: a) the loss of the use of the Greek language and ostracism from Greek culture and identity; b) events at official banquet during the Clergy-Laity Congress, during which Metropolitan Philip of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese made “open propaganda” for autocephaly; c) financial matters and the contribution made to the Patriarchate by the Archdiocese (which has remained static at $500,000 p.a. for ten years); and d) incompetence in the Chancery.
EINSTEIN’S WIFE
THE FIRST WIFE of the world renowned scientist, Albert Einstein, Mileva Einstein-Maric, was, it is reported, an Orthodox Christian. A renowned scientist in her own right, and considered to be one of the 100 most famous women scientists, she co-authored some of her husband’s works. She was born in Novi-Sad and baptised in the Serbian Church. As she lived inZurich, where there was no Serbian church, she attended the Russian parish there, and when she died in 1948, her funeral was conducted by Protopriest David Chubov. This news has come to light because her grave was scheduled for destruction after the expiration of the lease, but it has been saved and a pannikhida was served there on 29th August.
SERBIA SUSPENDS TEACHING OF DARWINISM
LJILJANACOLIC, Serbia’s education minister, has sensibly described Darwinism as “a theory as dogmatic as the one which says God created the first man,” according to a report in the “Daily Telegraph,” and the subject has been removed from the school curriculum in Serbia for the current year. Secular schools will be permitted to re-introduce it if they balance the theory with a study of the Biblical teaching. Some in the academic world there have seen this move as an effort to raise the influence of the Orthodox Church and her traditional teachings and have protested against the move
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