Word: rite
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Circumcision, the ancient rite of Jews and Moslems, is now performed on 80% of all American male infants. Several doctors have recently revived an old question: Is this snip necessary? In learned articles the skeptics argue that removing the foreskin is neither hygienic nor otherwise helpful. They also claim-but have not proved-that it reduces male sexual pleasure...
Deep End is being advertised as if it were a sequel to Repulsion. But instead of ghoulish psychodrama, it offers canny black comedy. Executed with a surrealistic flourish by Polish Director Jerzy Skolimowski (who collaborated with Roman Polanski on the script of Knife in the Water), it transforms the rite of puberty into a frenzied and often wildly funny vaudeville...
...sentiment for Latin turned up as well in a recent letter to the London Times, signed by 80 international figures, including Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, Author Graham Greene, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Opera Singer Joan Sutherland. The Latin rite, they argued, "belongs to universal culture as well as to churchmen and formal Christians...
...Maguire thought, would at least speed up his laicization request, and he went ahead with plans to marry his fiancee, a pretty C.U. doctoral candidate, Marjorie Reiley, 29. Invitations went out for an early summer wedding. At the last minute, still without word from Rome, the couple canceled the rite itself and replaced it with a Mass and a reception...
...This requires a dispensation from the obligation of celibacy as part of a "rescript of laicization." The decree makes the priest, for all practical purposes, a layman, relieving him both of his obligations and priestly functions. Technically, he is a "priest forever" according to the ordination rite, and laicization deprives him only of the licit use of his powers, not the powers themselves. In emergencies, laicized priests are permitted to use their priestly faculties, for instance to give absolution to a person in danger of death...