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Duty Is to Pray. A monk is a cleric who takes vows of religion that bind him to live and serve in one monastic community until his death. Unlike Franciscan or Dominican houses, which are organized into tightly run provinces, Benedictine monasteries are almost completely independent of each other; a...
Title role of Persephone was danced by Lithuanian Ballerina Svetlana Beriosova. heiress apparent to Margot Fonteyn as the company's prima ballerina. Actually. Persephone's "dancing" proved to be little more than occasional rhythmic movements, far less important than the recitation of Gide's text, which Beriosova...
In an apostolic letter to the world's Roman Catholics, Pope John XXIII last week made a plea for more frequent recitation of the rosary as a way of praying for peace. "The rosary of Mary," he wrote, "becomes the elevation of a great public and universal prayer for...
The Weapon. A set of rosary beads is divided into five groups called decades, with ten beads per decade. In saying the rosary, the user recites ten Hail Marys for each decade, meditating as he does so on a meaningful episode in the life of Christ or Mary, known as...
Birmingham's treatment of Harvard is typically superficial. The author obviously didn't know anything about Harvard when he started, and he came up with the thinnest kind of press-release impression. A couple of hoary anecdotes, a list of Harvard Pulitzer Prize winners, a recitation of the various graduate...