Word: churchmanship
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...church Anglicans call high churchmen "spikes" (for their sharp, uncompromising churchmanship). Under the "merry monks"-as the low-church Episcopal Chronicle called them-St. Mary's became one of the great spike churches of the U. S. It used quantities of incense and holy water, burned vigil lamps in its shrine of Our Lady, reserved the Blessed Sacrament (i.e., kept it on the altar for adoration), bought fancy vestments by the trunkful. It celebrated such rare feasts as the Falling Asleep of the Blessed Virgin. The church was perhaps the only one in the U. S. which maintained...
...celebrated Communion at St. Mary's altar for anyone-Orthodox Russian, Swedish Lutheran, U. S. Baptist or African Methodist-who cared to partake. And many a non-Anglican from all parts of the world did partake, for this friendly gesture, coming from one ordinarily so strict ' in churchmanship, brought to a lofty end the World Conference on Church & State (TIME, July...
...black-habited Holy Cross Monks; Franciscans in grey wool habits and sandals; dozens of Bishops all in copes & mitres save two who wore low-church chimera and academic hoods (one of these. Bishop Francis Marion Taitt of Pennsylvania, had welcomed the Congress saying his diocese had all sorts of churchmanship "but most churches get along neighborly"). In the sermon of the Mass Bishop Perry exclaimed: "The way of communion with God is the only way by which Christian reunion shall at last be realized. Catholic Christianity bears witness to the wholeness of faith, it is a spiritual condition essential...
Cardinal Hayes was swift to approve, swift to perceive what a stroke of churchmanship the plan was. For on Passion Sunday morning in Rome, Pope Pius XI was, with highest ceremonial, to inaugurate the extraordinary Holy Year which he announced last Christmas and explained last month as a means for "spiritual raising up of hearts and minds . . . universal concert of good works and prayers. . . . We propose to pray every day and we invite everyone to do so with us." Coupling President Roosevelt's New Deal with the Pope's Holy Year would be churchmanship indeed. And no church...
...case it is bad taste, poor churchmanship and a misuse of the ministerial office to attempt to line up the Church for a political party and its candidate...