Word: canonization
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Considering the fact that the choristers' earliest training includes lessons in how to keep a straight face in church, they smiled and bowed like old troupers in Chicago's Orchestra Hall. Getting used to applause, said St. Paul's Canon L. John Collins, "is like a snail leaving its house. But the boys have picked up secular work very well." They have also adapted easily to late hours; six boys are usually off each night, go to bed at 8 o'clock. "When this is over," said a choir official, "they shall...
...Canon City, Colo. (pop. 6,345) last week, 100 listeners aged four to twelve sat cross-legged on the floor around the LaSalle String Quartet. The first violinist began an explanation of the music to come: "We are like four people having a conversation, but we use our instruments instead of our voices. We start out rather quietly, but then a great argument develops. After a while we calm down again, and then each waits his turn to speak. We all have our say, and finally we are all agreed." Then the quartet put the various parts together and played...
Faced with a rise in divorce, the U.S. Protestant Episcopal Church in 1946 liberalized its marriage canon; bishops got authority to decide whether or not divorced people could be remarried in church. Faced with a similar divorce rise, the synod of Germany's United Evangelical Lutheran Church has decided to do just the opposite. Last week a new, more stringent set of marriage regulations went into effect for 18 million German Lutherans...
...Wisconsin and Rome, then went to Accra on the Gold Coast as a missionary, where he learned three Gold Coast dialects to add to his fluent French and Latin and his working knowledge of Italian and German. With a year and a half off to become a licentiate in canon law, he stayed on in Africa for twelve years...
Feeney said he had not gone to Rome because he was already informed of the charges against him "as I am entitled to be under canon...