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...Kokonor Kid" has already been put to learning the mantras and tantras-Buddhist charms, incantations and prayers-which will fill his days as long as he lives. This week in the Potala, lavish with gold and lacquer and stinking with yak-butter lamps, the Embodiment will kneel, facing east, in a big hall where envoys of foreign powers will bring him gifts. When messages from them have been read aloud, he will make three genuflections and nine prostrations in gratitude for celestial favors. The Regent will clothe the Dalai Lama in garments worn by his predecessor. Enthroned, the boy will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Kokonor Kid | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...cape, insisted that his car, in a procession of 18, be open so that his people could see him. At the Quirinal, Pius XII doffed his wet garments, proceeded to the grand staircase where Vittorio Emanuele and his Court awaited him. As the King began to kneel, the Holy Father graciously motioned him up, restrained him from kissing the Ring of the Fisherman. At the head of the stairs, the Queen and Royal Princesses knelt, kissed the ring. Moving in meticulously arranged procession through the palace, the party ended up in the throne room, where for half an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Pope to Quirinal | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...George M. Cohan, George S. Kaufman, Irving Berlin), from newspaper row (pavement-pounding reporters along with Franklin P. Adams, Westbrook Pegler, Rollin Kirby, Roy W. Howard, Herbert Bayard Swope). Many friends of Heywood Broun, accustomed to going to church only for funerals and weddings, did not know when to kneel or bow. Few of them had ever heard a funeral oration like that which was presently delivered to them by the man who last spring baptized Heywood Broun a Catholic: Monsignor Fulton John Sheen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Biography by Sheen | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...London church two posters appeared last week. One read, PRAY FOR PEACE. THIS CHURCH IS OPEN ALL DAY; the other, IF YOUR KNEES KNOCK, KNEEL ON THEM. But Europe's war-struck millions needed no such calls to prayer. From the crowded churches of a whole continent rose a spontaneous litany. Some religious footnotes to the week's headlined woe: >Closed to the public were Westminster Abbey's Royal Chapels, their tombs sandbagged, many of their effigies removed. On the black marble slab of Great Britain's Unknown Warrior in the Abbey's nave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Litany | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh, Rev. Thomas Francis Coakley of swank, well-publicized Sacred Heart Church (which acquired an electrically-heated baptismal font last year) issued a pamphlet, Church Manners. Price: 10?. The pamphlet tells when to sit, stand, kneel, genuflect (drop briefly on the right knee) during services. Some other observations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: MANNERS IN CHURCH | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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