Word: baptisme
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...suit. But then came a word of caution to the nation's 8,000,000 Roman Catholics from Joseph Cardinal Malula. 54, Archbishop of Kinshasa and one of Africa's three black cardinals. Malula, though long an advocate of African culture, balked at Christians giving up their baptismal names, and said so in an article in the Catholic weekly magazine, Afrique Chrétienne. Roman Catholic Mobutu promptly bounced the cardinal from his government-owned residence and suspended the magazine for six months. At a rally. Mobutu said that his onetime close friend Malula "must no longer...
...Baptism and Rats. "The Baptism" by Ameer Baraka (LeRoi Jones) joins Israel Horovitz's "Rats." Northeastern Studio Theater...
...Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, 250 worshipers filed into St. Clement's Episcopal Church last week for what was billed as an environmental theater baptism service. Inside, they were led into a dark room. Fixed to the walls were the haunting images of the '60s: photos of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King, front pages with dread black headlines. Further on, in an open bathroom, a young man in a towel was shaving, singing We Shall Overcome. Hippiesque youngsters extended open hands with greetings of "love." The worshipers got a surprise along with the handshake...
Rebirth Theme. Then the action subsided, the bathers put on modest white gowns and the central event came into focus: the baptism of three new members of the congregation-a Jewish student in his 20s, a young woman dancer and a three-year-old black-and-Puerto Rican boy adopted by a white family. As incense billowed up toward the rafters, the Rev. Eugene Monick, 42, intoned: "Do you renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world . . . and the sinful desires of the flesh . . . ?" Then he cupped water onto the forehead of each...
...Vicar Monick, baptism is a sacrament of rebirth that profits not only the newly baptized, but those "on the far side of Christ" who have seen their hopes crushed-as in the upheavals and violence of the '60s-and need their faith reaffirmed. To express all this symbolically through environmental theater, Monick worked for two months with the event's directors, Kevin O'Connor, a Roman Catholic, and Gordon Stewart, a Presbyterian. One nice touch they devised to dramatize the rebirth theme: during the baptism, members of the cast circulated among the worshipers washing the mud from...