Word: rite
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pale spring sunshine glowed on the House of Commons' oak paneling last week as Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins rose to start the annual spring rite of Budget Day. It was a twitchy moment for the British, who look to the budget for both a review of past economic performance and word of the government's future policies. In too many years since World War II, the budget has brought higher taxes, tighter credit and myriad other measures designed to solve Britain's chronic balance of payments problem. This time Jenkins offered much hope-and some...
...Bishops will be elected to renewable four-year terms, not for life. All bishops and ministers in the new church's member denominations will be accepted without reconsecration or reordination-a provision that is likely to disturb High Church Episcopalians, who may not feel that a projected unification rite is enough to assure "apostolic succession," an unbroken link with the Apostles...
...Rite of Ordination...
...might, however, be alleviated if priests were allowed to support themselves in some secular line of work). As for the Scriptural evidence, some modern exegetes argue that Christ's speech about eunuchs refers to marital fidelity rather than celibacy. Both the ancient Eastern Orthodox churches and the Eastern Rite communities in union with Rome have always allowed for married priests (but not monks or bishops). In recent years, moreover, the church has ordained married converts from the Protestant ministry. Theologically, Pope Paul's critics contend that the church has tended to confuse two separate vocations: priesthood and celibacy...
...cautiously humanizes Chavez as a man with a weakness for Diet-Rite Cola who cannot spare enough time from the cause for his wife and eight children. But that's about it. Clues to Chavez's character and motivation lie scattered all through the book. Perhaps the most provocative is the "martyr's shelf" behind his desk at the headquarters of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, which includes photographs of Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, as well as busts of John Kennedy and Lincoln...