Word: communion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stewardship, the number of clergy has almost doubled, the diocesan budget is up from $349,000 to $894,000-and the deficit may reach $80,000 this year, partly because of decreased giving by grumbling parishioners. Pike has delighted some and scandalized others by allowing a policy of open communion in his diocese, and by permitting the use of Grace Cathedral for a modern art exhibit, a jazz mass, and the premiere of Duke Ellington's In the Beginning...
...converted secretly to Roman Catholicism in 1654. She left Sweden ostensibly to visit a spa to the south, then set out across Germany disguised as a knight, and a year and a half later entered Rome regally. Legend has it that she wore embroidered gilt breeches to her first Communion...
Convenience for Kings. Lepp points out that many priests sympathetically but hypocritically give absolution and Communion to a divorced Catholic who lives with a mistress or girl friend; yet the moment the sinner tries to regularize the relationship by remarrying outside the church, he becomes a spiritual outcast. Lepp also argues that in its early years the church found it convenient to dissolve the marriages of powerful lords and kings. Church historians concede that such annulments were often granted on tenuous grounds, and that the current strict attitude to divorce did not begin to take shape until the 12th century...
Sense of History. That he was, and with a Gallic vengeance. In Leningrad, De Gaulle attended Mass in the city's only remaining Catholic church, Notre Dame de Lourdes, and received Communion while 500 Leningrad Catholics sang in Latin. In impeccable Russian, he quoted Pushkin on Sankt-Peterburg: "So stand in glory, Peter's city, and stand as invincible as Russia." He plunged into the Leningrad crowds-estimated as high as 1,000,000-shaking hands and dragging a reluctant Kosygin behind him. He swept through the Hermitage, gazing judiciously at Rembrandts and Murillos but discreetly skipping...
...small village of Nowy Dvor, some 20 miles from Warsaw, shirt-sleeved farmers chatted in the main square before the church, glancing toward the grey militia cars parked near by. In the dusty churchyard, women knelt to pray while children in white Communion dresses skipped about. Inside the small, battered church, Bishop Jerzy Modzelewski told an overflowing congregation that the replica of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, scheduled to arrive that day in Nowy Dvor as part of a summer-long processional to celebrate the millennium of Poland's conversion to Christianity would not come. "The authorities intercepted...