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...became an event Player looked forward to after she was not allowed to attend her cousin’s ball because she was too young. (Most modern debutantes typically come out during or after their first year of college.) “It was kind of a rite-of-passage thing,” she says. “It was my turn; I was joining the club.” Similar to Long, Player’s family has a tradition where, after her debut, each young woman has her portrait made in her debutante dress. Her grandmother then...
...Vatican official said such exceptions to papal tradition are unprecedented. "They have someone else celebrate the Mass and then flip on [the Pope's] microphone for him to say certain magic words--it's an odd usage of the Roman rite," he told Time. "If you can't do the Mass, you can't do the Mass. And there's no sense he will be able to do it next year either...
...one’s] sins to be saved and receive the Holy Spirit.” This stance opposes the typical Christian view of baptism as a symbolic ritual but not necessarily a requirement for salvation. Even those already baptized in another Christian church must go through the BCC rite...
It’s become an annual rite of spring that a Harvard senior will blow away everyone away to start the season. Last year it was javelin superstar Chris Clever ’01. This time it was co-captain Kobie Fuller...
...this frivolity couched in academic discourse is, of course, the advanced version of the ultimate high school rite of passage—sex ed class. But there doesn’t seem to be much ground-breaking work done at that level either. Students at Cambridge Ringe and Latin School say sex ed down Cambridge Street is basically a biology class with “some warnings about STDs.” According to CRLS senior Leslie Braga, “The sex ed offered at Ringe and Latin is pretty much the same thing we all got in fifth...