Word: baptismal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...besides his Catholic followers, Father Feeney's lecture series will also reach an audience of non-Catholics, who, according to St. Benedict's doctrine, can only obtain salvation through conversion and baptism. If these meetings can persuade non-Catholics to enter the Church, then the lecture series will, according to Father Feeney's theology, be saving souls from hell...
...plain-spoken Father Utaka Itagura, began instructions. From 4 in the morning to nearly midnight each day, his eager postulants came in groups of 60. "Most of them thought they could become Catholics in a hurry," he laughed. By August, he hopes, some of them may be ready for baptism, but he is making no promises...
...Marriage and baptism by the Protestant clergy have no legal recognition.* This is a particular hardship to our workers, who, since they are not legally considered married, are thus denied wage supplements for their wives and children. Our dead are denied interment in. church cemeteries, and because there are very few civil burial grounds, they must often be buried in the open field ... In Spain the hierarchy is more intransigent than in other countries. If we were a bigger minority it might be different, but the Church is determined to keep us small. We cannot even distribute church calendars through...
...Like the baptism, the choice of the prince's name was a purely family affair. Notably missing was the ubiquitous "Albert" which Victoria had insisted upon in the names of her sons and grandsons. Gone were the names of the patron saints of Ireland, Scotland and Wales borne by the last Prince of Wales, Edward VIII...
Good Shepherd. Butler's crusty father, a Church of England canon, intended his son for the ministry. He was outraged when the young man refused ordination on the grounds that infant baptism was probably ineffectual and that the Gospel stories told by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were too contradictory to be credible. The canon then ordered his son to become a schoolmaster or a barrister. Instead, Butler set sail for New Zealand and, helped by money from his father, became a prosperous sheep rancher. Five years later he returned to England, having sold...