Word: rite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tiny park on the outskirts of San Juan's business district, ten people gathered under an almond tree for a weird rite. They laid out a coffin with a paper-and-rag doll in side and surrounded it with four large candles, slips of paper with numerals and percentages, and branches from a local plant called Cruz de Malta...
...city through which the saffron-robed monks walk is now littered with rubble. There is far less food. The silver bowls have been replaced by plastic ones, bought on the black market. Yet the ritual is more important than ever. "People have asked to revive this dawn rite so they can share the little they have in order to make merit," explains Tep Vong, the senior Buddhist monk in Kampuchea. "We are rebuilding the entire structure of our social and religious life...
Though the Vatican is against marriage for priests, a position that Pope John Paul II has lately been at pains to reinforce, outside the U.S. there have always been exceptions to the rule. Some priests have been, in fact, ministers from other religions who had converted. In some Eastern Rite Catholic churches, married men can become priests, though almost never bishops. In the U.S., by contrast, married priests, converts or not, are virtually unknown. But last week Archbishop John Quinn, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, announced a startling decision. The ex-Episcopal priests will be individually evaluated...
...told TIME, however, that the Book of Common Prayer could "scarcely be used in the Mass." But the concession might refer to such services as morning and evening prayer, which are not part of regular worship for Roman Catholic laymen. Historically, the church has permitted exceptions to the Roman rite of the Mass when they derive from traditions of great richness and antiquity...
Before crossing the deserts, Arabs centuries ago performed a curious rite. Using narrow tubes, they inserted pebbles into the wombs of their camels to keep the animals from becoming pregnant during the long journeys. That crude but successful measure may have been the first intrauterine device (I.U.D.), a contraceptive now employed by some 50 million women round the world, including about 2 million in the U.S. Yet, as effective as the I.U.D. is, preventing pregnancy for years at a time with no special effort by the woman, it has lately become a center of controversy. Some patients and physicians believe...