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Alther tries to make the illness and eventual death of Ginny's mother the rite of passage that will turn the daughter into a self-winding adult. But Mrs. Babcock, whose suffering and despair are movingly portrayed, seems to have been smuggled in from a different novel. Kinflicks, for better and worse, belongs to Ginny and her amusing, if hardly profound, moral: Sisterhood is Slapstick...
Rushed Sins. With the start last week of the penitential season of Lent, many priests began educating their parishioners in the revised sacrament of Penance-now also called the Rite for Reconciliation-that formally takes effect next year. Face-to-face confession -the last reform of the sacraments that stemmed from Vatican Council II-is intended to enable the penitent not only to confess specific sins but discuss spiritual failings and work out appropriate good deeds for penance. Traditional confession, by contrast, has tended to be a rushed recitation of sins and routine prescription of "ten Hail Marys" or "five...
...confession takes longer than the traditional rite-15 or 20 minutes v. five or so-and is more demanding for priests and parishioners. But where it has been tried, the option seems popular. While some older Catholics find the open style uncomfortable, many younger parishioners seem to feel, in the words of one California seventh grader, that "it makes much more sense than going in and talking to a wall." Theologically, the old liturgy "evolved into a rite of fear and guilt, emphasizing sin more than God's love and mercy," says Father John Tivenan of St. Catherine...
...becomes the transmitter, not the information. This may be the only way of coping with the fact boom: personalizing information by identifying the story with the teller. Being talked about gives the politician, the athlete, the artist a legitimacy. The celebrant was once a person who performed a religious rite; now the celebrant is the creator of the celebrity. It is not strange that television broadcasters should be thought of, by some, as presidential possibilities...
...biggest change is the draft's provision for alternative versions of the central rites of the church: the Holy Eucharist, Daily Morning and Evening Prayer, and the Burial of the Dead. The first version, called Rite One, remains fairly close to the 1928 Prayer Book, though in many instances the language has been simplified. Rite Two differs sharply in phrase and form from the old services. God is no longer addressed as "Thou" or "Thee" but familiarly as "You." In the Lord's Prayer, "And lead us not into temptation" is rendered flatly as "Save us from...