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...focus relentlessly on the podium, or else be guilty of misrepresenting the event. Television properly replies that speeches are only one facet of a convention, and refuses to cover the ceremonies with the hushed reverence of the BBC covering a coronation. Other critics contend that this great political rite should not reach the public filtered through rival network superstars. But men like the lone Cronkite, or Chancellor/Brinkley (who make a better matched pair than did the earlier Huntley/Brinkley), show a welcome lack of showboating. When one NBC reporter, on turning the mike back to Chancellor, said "Happy birthday," Chancellor...
Even after four days of speeches and ceremonies, Gerald Ford was on such an emotional high after the last event on July 5 that he did not want to give up and go back to the White House. Leaving.Monticello where he had spoken at a naturalization rite for 106 new citizens, the President ordered his helicopter pilot to circle back over Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop home. He wanted to look longer...
...virtue of the new rite of worship is its flexibility. Priests now celebrate the Eucharist in homes, offices and hotels for small groups, as well as in churches. This freedom has allowed innovative clergymen to extend their ministry in intriguing new ways. St. Louis parish in Miami offers a Mass that uses young people in adult capacities-reading the Epistle and Gospel, acting as ushers, leading the music. In East Los Angeles, priests from Our Lady of Solitude parish celebrate Mass in the area's housing projects for members of barrio gangs who are fearful of crossing another gang...
Catholics are still adjusting to another reform, the "new" rite of penance, renamed the sacrament of reconciliation, which was put into effect in most U.S. parishes this past Lenten season. It is now a longer process often involving face-to-face easy-chair conversation between penitent and priest (TIME, March 15), although those who prefer it can retain the anonymity of the old screened confessional. Says Lee Roach, 41, a Delta Air Lines pilot and usher at St. Jude's parish in Sandy Springs, Ga.: "We're encouraged to examine our motives. Now, when you go to confession...
There are no round-the-corner lines yet for the new penitential rite. But the failure to confess does not keep people away from Communion, as it once did. Churches across the U.S. report an increase in the proportion of their worshipers who receive weekly Communion-from about one-fifth of them a decade ago to more than half today. One possible reason: the newer Catholic teaching suggests that it is hard-not easy-for a reasonably religious person to commit mortal sins, the principal impediment that would keep someone from Communion...