Word: rite
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...sound, it is the third reported instance of John Paul's attempting to cast out a demon (the others took place in 1978 and 1982). At a time when official exorcists are being added by several American dioceses, it suggests a remarkable comeback for an all-but-abandoned church rite. As if to illustrate the trend, the 1973 film The Exorcist has just been rereleased in theaters...
Officially the rite is called Recognition. On April 4, a delegation of bishops and monsignors in full regalia arrived at Rome's Basilica of St. Lawrence Outside the Walls. They descended to the 6th century cathedral's crypt and were led to a white stone tomb. A casket was opened for them. At this point, wrote Monsignor Carlo Liberati of the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints, "there was a moment of profound and intense commotion." The body within, that of 19th century Pope Pius IX, was "almost perfectly conserved." Pius, known universally in Rome as Pio Nono...
...first thing to mistrust, should you be an American thinking of going to Australia for the first time, is your idea of the place and its people. Probably you think the 2000 Sydney Olympics is a vastly important event for all of us, a huge national rite that will "put us on the map" - the same map, presumably, on which the last Australian Olympics, in Melbourne in 1956, failed to inscribe...
...Espelage acknowledges that it is difficult to know whether bullying is growing more common, she says that recognition of its consequences is certainly on the rise. Both agree that while bullying has been around since the one-room schoolhouse, it should no longer be dismissed as a mere adolescent rite of passage...
...first hour, this is an engaging rite-of-passage comedy for the Modern Maturity set. When the men go into orbit, so does the film. It blends tension and emotion, computer wizardry and dramatic skill in a vigorous climax--and the most impressive, haunting final shot of the movie year...