Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communion, Christians have worked out many ways of administering the sacramental cup. Roman Catholics reserve the wine for the priest. Baptists and many other Protestant groups deliver grape juice in tiny paper cups to church members in their pews. But the Anglicans, Episcopalians, Orthodox and most Lutherans use a common chalice, held by the server to the lips of each kneeling communicant...
Unsanitary! has been a recurrent cry against this practice ever since the discovery of bacteria. Last week it was heard again, this time in official tones. The Kansas State Board of Health, which has had a regulation since 1912 against the use of common drinking cups, put the Communion cup in the same category-"a potential source for the transmission of communicable disease." Episcopalian Evan Wright, director of the board's Food and Drug Division, was irate at the abandonment in his local church of the alternative method known as "intinction"-dipping the wafer into the wine...
Kansas' Episcopal Bishop Goodrich R. Fenner disdained to make any hygienic defense of the common chalice,* relied instead on church tradition. "I am not going to take any notice of the Board of Health," he announced, backed up by Kansas' Lutheran and Orthodox churches. "Our first loyalty is to the church." As for Director Wright, the bishop said: "Christianity can beat a sanitarian...
...Such as experiments indicating that the bactericidal property of silver, from which most chalices are made, plus the practice of turning the cup between communicants and wiping its drinking edge with a clean cloth (called a "purificator"), make the common Communion cup "not an important vector of infectious disease...
...while before midnight the wound-up kids spilled into the streets. Just who was responsible for what happened next is a matter of dispute. All around the Arena common citizens were set upon, robbed and sometimes beaten. A young sailor caught a knife in the belly, and two girls with him were thrashed. In all, nine men and six women were roughed up enough to require hospital treatment. Boston police blamed Freed and his frenetic fans, but could not prove it, since they nabbed nobody. Freed's defenders pointed out that the Arena area has been the site...