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...church, as Roman Catholicism does. To this end, he translated the Bible into colloquial German. Leaning heavily on the epistles of Paul, he held that man could not be saved by works or sacraments, but only by faith. But he kept intact two Roman Catholic sacraments-Baptism and the Lord's Supper...
...Cleveland Museum is celebrating its 35th anniversary, the hard way, with a well-calculated buying spree. Since the first of the year, Cleveland has bought four Venetian masterpieces: Lotto's Portrait of a Nobleman, Veronese's The Annunciation, Tintoretto's magnificent Baptism of Christ, and a hitherto unknown Titian entitled Portrait of a Prelate. Put on exhibition last week, the four Venetians gave new luster to a museum that was already one of the nation's best...
Ruin & Flames. In desperation, Diogène resorts to voodoo. He attends the "baptism" of Lourdes's baby, which involves dousing it in a basin of rum and perfume and then passing it over flames. He allows his wife to be treated by a voodoo sorceress who whips her seven times and plunges her into a foul bath prepared from sea water, herbs and asafetida. But even Diogène himself feels it is too late. A few days later his eldest boy dies in a fever. His wife gone mad, Diogène himself is found dead...
Early this month, the Singapore Supreme Court ruled that Bertha, Dutch by nationality and Roman Catholic by baptism, should be returned to her parents. By British law, she was under the age of consent and therefore her marriage to Mansur was annulled. The girl bride wept over the verdict. "I am a Moslem," she wailed. "I don't want to go to Christian parents." She turned to Che Aminah. "Mother, what can I do?" The Malay woman fainted...
...Roman Catholic custom of counting anybody who has been baptized a Catholic, even though he may have since joined a Protestant church. This principle works a great hardship upon young Protestants who want to get married, since Spanish law demands that if either partner has had a Catholic baptism, the couple must be married by a Roman Catholic priest. Even "an affidavit from a Protestant pastor that the parties are members of his church," writes Garrison, "is not regarded as 'documentary proof of non-Catholicity.' They still might have had Catholic baptism...