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Even now, following the tradition of Orthodoxy, Eastern-rite Catholic priests are allowed to marry before ordination (except in the U.S. and Canada, where Latin-rite Catholic bishops have until now opposed the idea as "giving rise to scandal"). Pope Paul and his two predecessors gave dispensations to a handful of convert Protestant ministers who were ordained in Europe as priests, even though they already had wives and children. Last month the Archbishop of Mariana in Brazil presided at the marriage of Pedro Maciel Vidigal, a former priest who was released from his vows by the Vatican...
...tourist in India, the magician's rope trick is merely another clever demonstration that the hand is quicker than the eye. To Professor Mircea Eliade of the University of Chicago divinity school, the fakir's fakery is the vestige of an ancient religious rite with highly symbolic overtones: the rope is an image of the "astral cord," symbolizing the link between earth and sky, man and heaven. Originally, the trick was intended to prove to spectators the existence of an unknown and mysterious world; by climbing the rope and then temporarily disappearing, the conjurer revealed the possibility...
...change someone was snapping his picture, and Master Photographer Edward Steichen, 86, was grinning "cheese" through his whiskers. He'd just been made a Commandeur de l'Ordre de Mérite of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, where he was born. After Luxembourg's Ambassador to the United Nations, Pierre Wurth, presented the order's cross in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, Steichen reported that he'll be starting off on a new photographic collection, something like 1955's magnificent "Family of Man." Only now, he chuckled, "it's about...
...dealing with marriage, and it says nothing about birth control. The prospect is that it will get further revision. "We could use another year to work on it," says one Latin American bishop on the drafting committee. As for the declaration on non-Christian religions, Arab nations and Eastern Rite Catholic bishops in the Middle East are still putting strong pressure on the Vatican to excise a statement exonerating Jews from the charge of deicide. But the basic text of that document was overwhelmingly approved during the last days of the third session, and although Vatican observers expect more maneuvers...
...most deceptive woman I knew," she reflected, "even used to say 'ouch' when someone bumped into her blip [falsies]." Today's dances reminded her of "some African rite of blip [circumcision]." So far, her lip has been blipped at least 100 times. "It's beginning to sound like a razor-blade commercial," she complains happily. Unblipped, she sounds like a mildly bawdy grandmother. To her, the Golden Gate Bridge seems like "a great big glorious G string." She opined that Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman's wedding reception "lasted longer than the marriage...