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Nonetheless, the official Roman Ritual still includes a rite of exorcism. The code of canon law includes rules for exorcism, specifying that only a bishop may authorize one. Rome still holds fast to belief in Satan: in a 1986 sermon, Pope John Paul insisted upon the reality of a personal devil and recognized the possibility of demonic possession. The secret draft for a forthcoming Catechism for the Universal Church, now being examined by the world's bishops, continues the traditional teachings about Satan and fallen angels...
...savory develops. Baseball, as its devotees never tire of arguing, is America, writ small but indelibly on green grass between white lines. When the current tawdry spectacle moves out of hotel rooms and onto diamonds, the breakthrough should prompt not only cheers but also some sadness that the springtime rite of innocence and rejuvenation has been sullied by avarice and bad blood...
...U.S.S.R., the dominant Orthodox Church has been subservient to the regimes in both Bulgaria and Rumania, remaining mute when the leaderships closed churches and repressed clergy. Rumania's huge Eastern Rite Catholic community has forcibly lived underground since...
Prompted by those alarming demographic trends, the bishops endorsed a new rite that, if approved by the Vatican, can be used in place of Sunday Mass in parishes where no priest is available. The "Order for Sunday Celebrations in the Absence of a Priest" allows a bishop to designate a deacon or a nonordained sister, brother or lay member to lead a prayer service based on the Scriptures. The bishops took care to see that such services will not mimic the Mass. The rules do provide, however, for the addition of an optional Communion service using sacramental bread previously consecrated...
...when he felt the building begin to shake. He ran into the street as the facade gave way, burying his Jeep under an avalanche of bricks. "I would have been finished," Valles marveled. No one was injured. Yet in nearby Watsonville (pop. 23,550), the Bake-Rite Bakery caved in, fatally smashing a passerby...