Word: communion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Setting Arrested. Now hardly a day goes by without some new, well-aimed deed by a religious leader-such as the recent pronouncement by St. Louis' Joseph Cardinal Ritter that Catholics guilty of discrimination should not receive Holy Communion without first confessing their sin. At its convention this year, the United Presbyterian Church voted $5,000,000 to help the cause of integration; the United Church of Christ plans to raise $1,000,000 by the end of 1964 for a new committee on racial justice...
...satirists are sometimes at a loss to find a really big fat Establishment to skewer. The American college, Big Business, Suburbia and Madison Avenue may still make young men angry, but who is mad at the Episcopal Church? It is not even, like its parent body within the Anglican Communion, Established. Paris Leary, a 32-year-old poet, has rashly ignored all of these considerations in a first novel that invites the reader to share his evident hilarity at High Anglican priests, parishioners and monks at a small college town in upstate New York...
...branches of the Anglican Communion are proud of their independence - and last week the Anglican Congress in Toronto asked them to surrender some of it. At the close of the ten-day meeting, the delegates took home a dramatic manifesto on "Mutual Responsibility and Interdependence," composed by the Most Rev. Arthur Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, and the other primates of the Anglican churches. "What we are really asking," the primates wrote, "is the rebirth of the Anglican Communion, which means the death of many old things but -infinitely more - the birth of entirely new relationships...
...manifesto, said the Rt. Rev. Stephen Bayne, executive officer of the Anglican Communion, could be "either the biggest lead balloon or the most dramatic document in our history." It calls upon the Anglican churches to share their financial and human resources for the good of the entire Communion, and specifically to join in raising $15 million within the next five years largely for missionary churches...
...specific program of action could then be worked out before the Communion's Lambeth Conference...