Word: priesting
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...more widespread practice of the traditional Latin Mass, which was all but shelved with the reforms of the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s. Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone recently confirmed to Le Figaro newspaper that this motu proprio, or personal initiative of the Pontiff, will allow any priest to say the mass according to the old Tridentine rite (which is delivered in Latin with the priest facing the altar, his back to the congregation), rather than have to seek approval from the local bishop as is now required...
...Eighteen months ago, one Rome-based progressive cleric had said he was "surprised to see that [Benedict] seems to be open to hear new ideas." But today, the same priest is disappointed. There has been no sign of any of the hoped-for reforms: overturning the ban on communion for divorced and remarried Catholics, reconsidering the celibacy requirement for priests, allowing gays in seminaries, or a softening of the condom ban to allow for distribution in AIDS-ravaged Africa. The release last month of the Pope's final document on what had seemed to be a convivial and intellectually open...
...years later, after Pitonyak was given a life sentence for the murder, Austin firemen and policemen who followed Sedwick into the apartment are still undergoing counseling, Cave says. Sedwick and her family are also being counseled by therapists and the family priest. But all that help still can't prevent daily, commonplace events from triggering the horrible memories. "We don't eat anything in our house that is carved and there is a certain type of garbage bag with a red cinch that we don't use," Cave says...
...3hr.11min. evening opens with a trailer for Machete - not a fake film, since Rodriguez, who wastes nothing, reportedly plans to make this movie. It stars Rodriguez's cousin Danny Trejo, whose leathery face is already rated R for menacing violence, and Cheech Marin as a priest called to arm himself against the mob. When a man on the receiving end of Marin's gun pleads for mercy, the padre replies, "God has mercy. I don't," and blasts away. (The line paraphrases the title of the first Bud Spencer-Terence Hill spaghetti Western God Forgives...
...cold-blooded elimination of political rivals and moderate Tamil leaders as from genuine devotion. "Each individual person knows that if his name gets on a list of those who want change [from Tiger domination], they better be very careful," says Father Benjamin Henry "Harry" Miller, 81, a Catholic priest who arrived in Sri Lanka in 1948 and works at a Jesuit school in Batticaloa. Proud and inflexible, Prabhakaran needs the violence-or he risks irrelevancy. "You will not change his mind," says Miller. "You can only stop his mind...