Word: sacramentalism
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Buchanan's adolescent universe was as tribal as the Balkans, divided into parishes. He came from Blessed Sacrament. On weekends, the Buchanan boys and other warriors from Gonzaga would load up someone's father's car with six-packs (the Buchanans wrecked half a dozen of their dad's Oldsmobiles, until his insurance was canceled) and go marauding, like whiteboy Crips and Bloods, but armed with only their fists and a fierce Hibernian truculence. In their cars, they would slowly circle the Hot Shoppe on Connecticut Avenue, hoping for girls, settling for a fight...
...Everybody light up! In indie films every character, it seems, puffs on a cigarette--as a tribute to the tortured heroes of film noir, a gesture of offhand rebellion, a sacrament of elegance and fatalism. There's an entire movie--quite a bad one, full of unwontedly tortured acting and a wildly wrong camera style--called Smoke. That in turn spawned a companion film, the much better Blue in the Face, to be released in the fall. Both revel in the outlaw ecstasies of tobacco...
...Alice Laurich of the Blessed Sacrament Church in Greensburg, Pa, on a judge's recent order to ban two women from the church for excessively loud praying. This is the second church that has banned the women...
Self-pity is one ingredient in the black brew. Slivovitz, plum brandy, taken in great quantities, starting at breakfast time, is another; alcohol numbs the conscience and lubricates the trigger finger. The sacrament of slivovitz -- though some get there without it -- helps keep Serbs, both fighters and sideline supporters -- in that fourth dimension of tribal passion where heroic patriotism and great atrocity become equally possible. This is the dimension of tribal memory, drifting in time, across centuries. Grievances float through the dimension like ghosts, crying out for justice -- for the Serbs whom the Croats massacred during the Hitler years...
...women for ordination. The decision in London sealed the fate of a 22-year effort to undo King Henry's legacy and reunite the Anglican and Catholic churches. "The problem of the admission of women to the ministerial priesthood," declared a Vatican spokesman, "touches the very nature of the sacrament of priestly orders. This decision by the Anglican Communion constitutes a new and grave obstacle to the entire process of reconciliation...