The context would support thinking that Catholics do do it.
P.
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> She did not say Catholics do it. There are Christian churches that do.
> What is your point?
> N
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> >>> Peter Montgomery <[log in to unmask]> 08/11/07 7:41 PM >>>
> I suppose there may be some exceptions, but as far as I am
> aware, the Catholic Church hasn't practised full immersion
> baptism for a long, long time.
> P.
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> From: Diana Manister
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> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 7:36 AM
> Subject: Re: Fearing death by water
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> Nancy I will read those Levertov poems. I have only read The Golden
> Notebook.
>
> As harsh as the nuns were on girls, they really attacked boys. I mean
> drew blood. I've heard this from other lapsed catholics who attended
> other schools. If you told your parents a nun injured you they thought
> you must be very bad and punished you again, so you told no one.
>
> A propos of water, have we mentioned the holy water that sits by every
> church door, with which those entering bless themselves after dipping
> their fingers in it? And the water in the baptismal font or the water in
> which full-immerson baptisms are conducted? Diana
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> From: Nancy Gish <[log in to unmask]>
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> Subject: Re: Fearing death by water
> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 16:24:49 -0400
> It does derive from Platonism, but the argument can be made--and has
> been by a wonderful Catholic Church historian friend of mine--that this
> has been a wrong direction in the Church because it is in contradiction
> to the Incarnation. Jesus did not deny his body in sacrificing it: he
> affirmed it in being born into flesh and in suffering as flesh.
>
> I think you would find it interesting to read--if you have
> not--Denise Levertov's late Catholic poems (she became, in her own
> words, increasingly orthodox), especially those in BREATHING THE WATER
> (New Directions, 1987). "On a Theme from Julian's Chapter XX" is about
> Jesus on the cross and the meaning she sees in his suffering as body.
>
> I am not Catholic; I just read these things and talk with those who
> are theologians. So my own view is not represented by this statement.
>
> My own view is shame on those Benedictine nuns for cruelty to
> children.
> Cheers,
> Nancy
>
>
> Dear Carrol, thanks for the information. I was educated by
> Benedictine nuns and we were certainly taught to regard the body as
> something to be overcome by denial. And they were happy to help us
> disrespect our bodies by smacking us with rulers and making us kneel on
> dry beans as punishment! We were praised for fasting and giving up foods
> we liked for Lent. If you have been to Italy you have probably witnessed
> the devout crawling up enormous flights of stairs in churches on their
> hands and knees. Self-flagellation is practiced by some (remember the
> scene in The Da Vinci Code?) Jesus set the ultimate example of denying
> the body when he allowed himself to be crucified when he could have
> avoided it. It seems to me this descends from Platonic dualism. The
> spirit/body split. Catholic ascetics are not all Manicheans are they?
> Diana
>
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> >>> Diana Manister <[log in to unmask]> 08/09/07 3:42 PM >>>
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