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Caralli of Leuchtenberg. During the coming year such pictures of the hovering Virgin, the angels and vacant tomb will be increasingly exhibited. When Pius XII finally proclaims the new dogma from the altar of the Cathedra, in St. Peter's, Roman Catholic Christendom will be waiting...
...complaint should have been directed to Msgr. Knox. Sample passage from The Mass in Slow Motion: "When there are priests in choir, you know, they are supposed to mumble all this part of the Mass to one another while the priest is getting through it at the altar...
...Kiss for Bom Jesús. Inside, they moved forward past the gold and white side altars, past the two ornamented Aleijadinho pulpits. The only sound was the soft scuffing of sandaled feet. Reaching the altar, the pilgrims handed their candles to a priest, kissed the recumbent image of Bom Jesús, dropped their offerings in a box beside the altar. Some paused to honor the old tradition of "measuring" the figure with a piece of white binding tape that would later hang in their huts as a souvenir. Then they went back to the dusty hill towns that...
...chaplains-two Protestant, one Catholic, one Jewish-who went down with the torpedoed troopship Dorchester in 1943 after giving their life belts to G.I.s. One of them was Dr. Poling's own son. The inter-faith memorial now being built in Philadelphia will have a Hebrew tabernacle, Catholic altar and Protestant altar on a revolving base...
...CEREMONIAL KISSING OF THE ALTAR: "A keyhole, through which you look right back to the catacombs; Mass over the tombs of the martyrs ... All altars must have relics ... to remind us that we belong to the martyrs of the first century, and they to us . . . The Mass...