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Disunited Rite. But even delegates from the Eastern Rite, which has an ancient tradition of ordaining married men, were not united in asking for a change in the celibacy rule. Josyf Cardinal Slipyi, the exiled patriarch of the Ukraine, spoke on behalf of the Eastern practice. But Coptic Patriarch Stephanos Sidarouss declared that the Latin Rite would be unwise to change its rules, because married priests may become too absorbed with family matters...
Fearsome Foursome. If the Orioles' victory celebration seemed a bit forced last week, it was only because the popping of champagne corks has become something of an October rite in Baltimore. While the bubbly flowed, Manager Earl Weaver proclaimed his Orioles "the best team ever assembled. We're only the third team to win more than 100 games three straight years, and we've won four pennants in six years-and only the Yankees have done that...
...soldier days are over. Last week Pope Paul VI announced a new rite of confirmation that, among other changes, abolishes the symbolic blow on the cheek, apparently because of its military implication. The new words revert to a 4th century Byzantine formula, still used by most Eastern Catholic and Orthodox churches, that emphasizes the Holy Spirit. The bishop will simply say, "Receive the seal of the gift of the Holy Spirit," or some similar translation from the prescribed Latin: Accipe signaculum doni Spiritus Sancti. As for the holy oils, they will now be perfumed, said a Vatican spokesman...
Circumcision, the ancient rite of Jews and Moslems, is now performed on 80% of all American male infants. Several doctors have recently revived an old question: Is this snip necessary? In learned articles the skeptics argue that removing the foreskin is neither hygienic nor otherwise helpful. They also claim-but have not proved-that it reduces male sexual pleasure...
Deep End is being advertised as if it were a sequel to Repulsion. But instead of ghoulish psychodrama, it offers canny black comedy. Executed with a surrealistic flourish by Polish Director Jerzy Skolimowski (who collaborated with Roman Polanski on the script of Knife in the Water), it transforms the rite of puberty into a frenzied and often wildly funny vaudeville...