Word: baptisme
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...because, though exhausted from overwork, she would not eat more than the ration in occupied France. But what are Christians to make of Simone Weil's attitude toward the church? The Dominican priest who was her spiritual adviser is sure that, had she lived, she would have accepted baptism. Simone Weil doubted it. A brilliant intellectual who found God after wading through agnosticism and Marxism, she thought her mission was to remain "on the threshold" of the church, a bridge between believers and unbelievers...
...from Hell." Said Pius XII: "Who is not horrified at the hatred and ferocity with which the God-haters in many parts of the world threaten to stamp out or uproot whatever is divine and Christian? Against this united front, those who are signed with the sacred mark of baptism . . . cannot any longer remain divided and disunited . . . The chains, the sufferings, the torments, the groans, the blood of that immense multitude, known and unknown, who for their . . . Christian faith have suffered . . . urge all to embrace this holy unity...
...Bull Run, Colonel Sherman got his baptism of blood. The "sickening confusion [of] a field strewed with dead men and horses" affected him so sharply that he later warned Lincoln never to give him "a superior command." Nevertheless, the Union was in dire need of professional officers, and Lincoln gave him temporary command in Kentucky. Sherman was always an agitated smoker; his tobacco consumption kept pace, says Author Miers, with his expanding fears of responsibility. In a haze of smoke and anxiety, he ordered his "insane" countermarch from Cumberland...
...explanation of its meaning and symbolism, into the living room. Next month, from an altar set up in a studio of Boston's Station WBZ-TV, a priest will say Low Mass, while a second priest serves as commentator. Planned for future telecasts in the series: baptism, confirmation and-perhaps-marriage, in order to give the meaning of the sacraments "in a realistic way." But Catholic churchmen had a word of warning for laggard Catholics: Mass by TV is not a substitute for attendance at church on Sunday...
...opera's central character (Beret), a "fine sensitive woman" who cracks up from pioneering hardships, gets lost amidst homecomings, claim jumpings, a wedding, baptism and a final invasion of locusts. The result: Giants in the Earth totted up as more of a series of tableaux (or a bad western) than an opera...