Word: communion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broadcast from an R. A. F. patrol plane over the Channel-especially topical because many Britons last week were saying "It would be just like that bloody Hitler to try his invasion on Christmas."* From amid the rubble and ruin of Coventry a broadcast was planned of Holy Communion in the 600-year-old crypt of the chapel of smashed Coventry Cathedral...
Unlike its sister churches in the Anglican Communion, the Protestant Episcopal Church of the U. S. has never had an archbishop. But last week it took a step to get itself within three years the next thing to an archbishop. Hitherto U. S. Episcopalians have merely chosen a Presiding Bishop, expected him simultaneously to run his own diocese and head the church at large. The present Presiding Bishop, the Right Rev. Henry St. George Tucker of Virginia, has a nationwide job but ecclesiastical authority only in Virginia. Most often he is in Manhattan, where he must get leave from Bishop...
...Dago Red (Viking; $2.50). It is perhaps 1940's best book of short stories: the sort many people wish that William Saroyan, with a grip on himself at last, would write. With the emotional richness of his race and his Church, Fante writes mostly of his childhood-First Communion, baseball ambitions, parochial schools, his volatile father, long-suffering mother-always an easier trick than to write well of the adult world. But his best tale, "A Wife for Dino Rossi," is grown-up stuff, sad, funny, brutal, tender...
...church. But like the horseless carriage, divorce has since become such a commonplace (16 out of every 100 U. S. marriages) that U. S. churches have changed their tune. Few officially allow their ministers to remarry divorced persons (save innocent parties in divorces for adultery) or admit them to Communion after remarriage. Unofficially, many U. S. churches allow both. Last week the relatively small (1,900,000 members) but influential Protestant Episcopal Church, which in law and practice has been among the strictest, made ready to reconsider its stand. The church's Commission on Marriage and Divorce unanimously proposed...
...individual's attitude," showed what an ecclesiastical revolution widespread divorce has wrought. For paradoxically, Episcopalians, despite their strong stand in the past against divorce, almost certainly have the highest divorce rate of any U. S. sect. Among the Episcopalians whom the revised canon might make eligible for Communion: Elliott Roosevelt, Cornelius Vanderbilt...