In a ceremony that combined ancient ritual with modern dance, organ pipes with drum beats and reverence with protest, Edward K. Braxton was installed Wednesday as the eighth Roman Catholic bishop of Belleville.Modern dance and "reverence with protest"???? What's that?
The congregation was still standing as nine members of the Althoff Catholic High School Praise Dancers, barefoot and dressed in blue cassocks, entered the nave with a book of the Gospels and a bowl of incense. They danced down the center aisle as a gospel chorus, backed up by a set of drums, sang an up-tempo version of "Alleluia."Aaaaarrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhh!!!! And I missed it.....the influence of LA right here in the midwest! Who has the pictures? Praise dancers with incense - what could be better? It's a shame Cardinal Arinze could not be there...
"Just beautiful," said Shirley Renner, 70, of Cahokia.
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