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...sealing" of the conclave is a meticulous medieval rite. After all the Cardinals have assembled inside the Apostolic Palace adjoining St. Peter's, the Master of Ceremonies or an assistant will stride through the rooms of the palace shouting, "Extra omnes!" (Everybody out). All not permitted in the conclave will then leave. A chosen Cardinal, in this case Argentina's Eduardo Pironio, will supervise the lockup inside. Two other Vatican officials and the commandant of the Swiss Guard will also lock the door from the outside. Special notaries will duly document the sealing...
Every President since Eisenhower has proposed reductions, but without success. Says Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano: "It is an annual rite of spring for the Executive Branch to march up Capitol Hill with a broad proposal to reform Impact Aid and to march down the hill in the summer without...
WITH THE POSSIBLE exception of Alfred Hitchcock, Philippe de Broca must be Cambridge's favorite director. After all, it was de Broca's universally acknowledged masterpiece King of Hearts that ran in Cambridge for over five years, gathering a dedicated following and becoming something of an initiation rite for nascent Cantabrigians, from 1971 until 1976. But no one had heard from de Broca in the past few years; the man who brought us King of Hearts and, once upon a time, That Man from Rio, seemed to have disappeared. Well, de Broca fans can rest assured that their...
Anneliese's parents had agreed to the exorcism with the local bishop's approval after doctors failed to rid her of epileptic-like convulsions. The prosecution took no issue with the rite of exorcism, which Fathers Wilhelm Renz and Ernst Alt conducted according to a Catholic ritual promulgated in 1614. But Prosecutor Karl Stenger argued that calling a doctor to examine the girl "would not have compromised the defendants' religious convictions." Churchmen seemed to agree. Munich's Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger said that the 1614 ritual "must be thoroughly revised," and the German Bishops' Conference ruled...
...alumnus of the Class of '69, I would like to see today's protesters put their money where their mouth is. Are they willing to pay the personal price of helping bring outrageous injustice to an end? Or is all the marching and shouting just another empty rite of spring? --Marvin Hightower