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...delegate slung a live cat around his neck. Two Bundestag Deputies played soccer in the aisles. From the podium, a man in a clown suit complained that the conference was interfering with Carnival, West Germany's annual spasm of pre-Lenten revelry. A delegate suggested that male candidates for the European Parliament in Strasbourg, whose nomination was the purpose of the meeting, should "undress and present themselves in the nude because the human body reveals political attitudes." Keynote Speaker Antje Vollmer railed against the "industrialized nature-destroying internationalism of neocolonialist nation states." Finally, the proceedings were disrupted...
...Vladimir and Suzdal for ordering his clergymen "to preach more frequently and not be lazy." Pointing to a disturbing revival of traditional holiday visits by priests, the author of the report lauds one council functionary in Tomsk who "took steps to curtail such activities" after he noted that Lenten visits created a "sensation" in villages and provoked "unwholesome interest" among unbelievers...
...Abbott of Theleme, The whole Cardinals' College, or The Pope himself to see in dream Before his Lenten vision gleam, He lies there, the sockdolager...
...Council (1962-65). During the council he made eight speeches, the most memorable in favor of religious liberty. Church honors followed: a Cardinal's red hat in 1967, election as one of three Europeans on the council of the world bishops' synod in 1974, an invitation to conduct the Lenten retreat for Pope Paul VI's household...
...German phrase "to pour from a barrel") serve roughly the same functions as carnival elsewhere in the Christian world. It is a season of merrymaking, mischiefing and fair-maidening begun by medieval Catholics who wanted to say a hearty "farewell to the flesh" (carne vale) before starting the Lenten regimen of fasting and penance on Ash Wednesday. In Munich, the capital of Fasching, the farewell involves a series of masquerades, formal balls and street parades, which lead to, among other effects, an increase in illegitimate births every autumn. Fasching also breeds business. Hotels are sold out; consumption of champagne, caviar...