Word: baptisme
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...anxious. In one pew, a young Vietnamese girl and her brother, both refugees and no older than 14, sat alone. She wept openly, and the boy held her hand throughout the service. "Amid great stress and suffering," intoned the Anglican priest, "we come to a celebration of life-baptism." Then he sprinkled holy water on an adult Vietnamese convert and christened him Michael...
...Corporal Teilhard, the war was a "baptism in reality." The theological musings in the diary amount to a rough draft of The Divine Milieu, the 1926-27 treatise (finally published in 1957) in which Teilhard formally set out his view of God as a "center" who "fills the whole sphere" of creation. Despite his disclaimers, the church found this idea dangerously akin to pantheism, the idea that God and the universe are identical. A comment on the last day of July 1916 summarizes his lifelong attempt to reconcile Catholicism and modern science: "My mission = very humbly but ceaselessly to take...
...instance, the orthodox formulation of original sin is discarded. Because of it, old Catholic catechisms taught that it was a mortal sin not to baptize infants. The new Catechism says that "there can be no fundamental objections" if parents let children decide on their own whether to seek baptism, as Baptists...
...York Jesuit Joseph F. O'Rourke anticipated some sort of trouble when he went to Marlboro, Mass., recently to baptize the baby of Mrs. Carol Morreale (TIME, Sept. 2). Incensed by her advocacy of an abortion-information clinic, local priests had refused to perform the baptism, and O'Rourke stepped into the breach against orders from his immediate superior. Last week it was clear that the Jesuits took O'Rourke's disobedience much more seriously than he had expected: his New York provincial superior, the Very...
...superiors. Taylor stressed that he had decided on the dismissal (which had the approval of Jesuit headquarters in Rome) only after "careful review and discussion" with O'Rourke. But Father Frederick O'Connor, the superior who had originally ordered O'Rourke not to perform the baptism, wondered whether the young Jesuit had been given "ample opportunity and assistance to defend himself...