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Though the Vatican is against marriage for priests, a position that Pope John Paul II has lately been at pains to reinforce, outside the U.S. there have always been exceptions to the rule. Some priests have been, in fact, ministers from other religions who had converted. In some Eastern Rite Catholic churches, married men can become priests, though almost never bishops. In the U.S., by contrast, married priests, converts or not, are virtually unknown. But last week Archbishop John Quinn, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, announced a startling decision. The ex-Episcopal priests will be individually evaluated...
Before crossing the deserts, Arabs centuries ago performed a curious rite. Using narrow tubes, they inserted pebbles into the wombs of their camels to keep the animals from becoming pregnant during the long journeys. That crude but successful measure may have been the first intrauterine device (I.U.D.), a contraceptive now employed by some 50 million women round the world, including about 2 million in the U.S. Yet, as effective as the I.U.D. is, preventing pregnancy for years at a time with no special effort by the woman, it has lately become a center of controversy. Some patients and physicians believe...
This play is a rite of passage, a picaresque odyssey of a man who moves from his bucolic farm in Cross Roads, N.C., to jail and to a big Northern city where the demonic "subway rolls, the sub way rolls," and after 13 years comes back home to the fragrant land of his first sweet memories and desires...
...typical Mass the young priest dons a zebra's mane headdress while assistants, men and women alike, clap and shuffle around the altar to the throbbing of drums and an occasional shrill scream of religious ecstasy. The congregation swings, sings lustily and sways with the rhythms. "The Latin rite is too impersonal for Africans," the priest explains. "The Zaïreans' Mass comes from the heart." Clergy were chilled a bit when John Paul insisted on a Latin rite for this week's major open-air Mass in Kinshasa...
...December while training for the World Cup, and went to Lake Placid as a substitute. But in practice runs at Whiteface, Stock clocked the best time for all racers on the first day, then repeated the feat the second day. Team officials met and settled upon a fratricidal little rite of natural selection. Stock and Weirather had made the team, but the three other racers would have to fight for the remaining two slots by making one more training run down Whiteface. Officials turned down a proposal by the five skiers that they all be made to qualify...