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...defeated her-Burton's stubborn inability to see the difference between Catholicism and any other religion, and his invincible interest in the theory of sex. She dealt with both problems in masterly fashion. When he died in 1890 at 79, she arranged for him to receive the last sacrament of the Roman Church. He had been dead for two hours, but the priest took her word that he was alive. Then, "sorrowfully, reverently, and in fear and trembling," she set about burning his manuscript of The Scented Garden, an encyclopaedic sex manual whose translation from the Arabic had occupied...
...hope of settling that precious state, and defining his position in it, that the hippie uses drugs-first for kicks and then sometimes as a kind of sacrament. Anti-intellectual, distrustful of logic, and resentful of the American educational process, the hippie drops out -tentatively at first-in search of another, more satisfying world...
...life and a sacrament," said Leary, "and a sacrament is something that gets you high." He then downed the water, and launched into a debate with Jerome Y. Lettvin, professor of Biology and Electrical Engineering at M.I.T. on the merits and evils...
...their creation; 2) revealed law, applicable to all Christians "in a state of grace"; and 3) church law, applicable only to members of a particular church. There is little dispute left over the last two categories. Few Catholics would argue any longer that revealed law (for instance, the Christian sacrament of marriage) or church law (for instance, the celibacy of priests) should be made part of state law. But Catholics still retain the belief that natural law, or their interpretation of it, should be embodied in human legislation-and that is the point where they clash with their critics...
Reformation leaders rejected the traditional opinion that confirmation was a Christ-founded sacrament of the same importance as baptism or Holy Communion; but many churches have preserved the ritual as a way of sanctifying religious instruction and symbolizing full entry into the church. In the Anglican Communion, where the customary age for receiving confirmation is twelve, the bishop first questions the youth on his knowledge of the faith, then lays on hands as a sign of the blessing of the Holy Spirit. Among Lutherans, the usual age is 13 or 14, and as with Episcopalians, confirmation is a requirement...