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Predictably Proud. There remained another high moment in the life and times of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: the baptism of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. As the Rev. Martin J. Casey, S.J., pastor of Holy Trinity Church, intoned the words, John Jr. was held by Godmother Martha Bartlett, wife of Chattanooga Times Reporter Charles Bartlett, who was present as a stand-in for Godfather Prince Stanislas Radziwill, husband of Jackie's sister and away in London. Jackie Kennedy was predictably proud of her tiny (6 Ib. 3 oz.) son, dressed in the christening gown his father had worn 43 years...
...succession (by other bishops) and out of it according to the procedure (by election) of the non-catholic churches. The catholic tradition would also require that there be a formal confession of belief in the Trinity and the administration of the two sacraments instituted by Christ-holy communion and baptism...
...governed by bishops who are elected by jurisdictional conferences. Founded in the 18th century in reaction to the Church of England, Methodism stresses personal religious experience and love of God rather than doctrine, though Methodists believe in the Trinity, recite the Apostles' Creed, and observe the sacraments of baptism and communion. But they regard communion as only commemorative of the Last Supper...
Medicine & Baptism. Riou's competitors are voodoo witch doctors, called bocors, whom some islanders still prefer. A few days ago, Riou barely saved an old man's life by stripping a voodoo bandage of rotten leaves from his dangerously infected foot and applying proper treatment. There are other superstitions. Once Riou asked a mother whether she had given her seriously sick baby medicine the hospital had provided. "No, Father," she replied. "Why not?" he asked. The cryptic reply: "He's not baptized yet." Haitian peasants consider a child before baptism only a brute animal on which medicines...
...long ago, the Christian Century persuasively summed up Southern Baptism thus: "There are some striking inconsistencies. Fervent for missionary work among peoples of all races, it yet has to come to terms with the racial problems in its own dooryard. Pouring millions of dollars into education, it yet has made no effort to recommend ministerial stand ards to its cooperating churches. While loudly proclaiming its zeal to win the world for Christ, it yet bans any official relationship to national or world ecumenical movements. As they invade new territories, domestic and foreign, their cultural and social presuppositions are being challenged...