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...suspicion and reserves her deepest loyalty for the Roman Catholic Church. Paraguay's Pettirosi Market in the capital of Asuncion is built around a rustic brick chapel, and each morning when the market women troop past, they light candles, kneel down and pray, and place flowers on the altar. "Most men are drunken no-goods," says one market matriarch. "Priests are the only members of their sex I can respect...
...green and pleasant town of Westham in Sussex last week, the Rev. Harold Coulthurst performed one of the rarest of Anglican ceremonies: rehallowing an altar. Rehallowing was required because several days before, four men had been surprised while in the midst of a mysterious ritual inside Westham's 11th century church of St. Mary the Virgin. "The men were trying to communicate with evil spirits," declared Coulthurst. "They were chanting some sort of mumbo jumbo. They were definitely in league with the devil...
...women were opened in the abandoned churchyard of St. Mary's, Clophill, Bedfordshire. One skeleton was removed, and was later discovered inside the church. Investigators assume that the church had been the scene of an impromptu Black Mass-which, properly performed, requires a live nude woman as altar...
...funeral, and even with the scholarly help of a priestly commentator it was for many a puzzling ritual. There, on TV, Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing stood dressed in odd black garments, droning Latin phrases toward the east" wall of the cathedral, striding from one side of the altar to the other as he ceremonially poured wine into a chalice or read from a black-bound missal. Much of the mystery will soon be modified. Last week Pope Paul VI formally promulgated the first and almost only concrete accomplishment of the Vatican Council: a 12,000-word constitution that...
...this program, the first part of the Mass, which consists largely of scriptural readings, would be read by the priest in the language of-and facing -his congregation. To emphasize congregational participation in the sacrifice, laymen would carry to the altar the wine and the hosts to be consecrated. The Canon, the most ancient prayer of the Mass, would remain in Latin; but rather than being recited silently, it would be said aloud, as is the custom in the ancient Eastern liturgies. On certain solemn occasions, such as Nuptial Masses, laymen would be able to receive Communion in the form...