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...keeping with Vatican II, the new code emphasizes the role to be played by lay Catholics as part of the "people of God." Various provisions explicitly authorize them to perform certain liturgical functions, such as reading the Old Testament lessons and epistles at Mass, helping to administer a diocese, serving on marriage tribunals and even running parishes if no priest is available...
...testament of prophecy, true belief, go-getting and megabucks...
...floor sharecropper's cabin. The Elliotts had been sent to Guatemala by the Wycliffe Bible Translators of Huntington Beach, Calif., who dispatch teams around the world to create the first written form of languages or dialects that exist only in a spoken form. Experts then translate the New Testament into the language-in the Elliotts' case, a difficult Indian
Like an Old Testament prophet, Deane Hinton, our Ambassador to El Salvador, confronted the oppressors with their evil [Nov. 22]. He got the usual response: instead of repentance, a hardness of heart. The Salvadoran businessmen deserve the destruction that is coming upon them. Leon Schaddelee Ben ton Harbor, Mich...
...easy to address an infant solely in the language of the Old Testament. Ben-Yehuda had to keep inventing words: buba (doll), glida (ice cream), mimkhata (handkerchief). When more children appeared (eleven in all), they too had to speak entirely in the dead language that Ben-Yehuda was almost single handedly bringing back to life. Recalls his daughter Dola Ben-Yehuda Wittman, now 75: "Sometimes the other children would mock us because they didn't understand the Hebrew words we were using...