Word: communion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traumas often veer toward the neo-Gothic, with social secretaries replacing spinster govenesses, and gay cousins occupying closets that mad old women once inhabited. Auchincloss also occasionally mires himself in melodramatic ramblings that he evidently perceives as powerful prose ("Orgasm with David was like the raising of a communion cup before an altar that knew no sacrament but love.") but these indulgent tirades are only sporadic; Auchincloss is generally a smooth and vivid writer...
...tracing the origins of the President's views, the same historian described him as a middle-class Southern boy who had deep religious feeling, a romantic view of knowledge and intense ambition. Once he had wept when he listened to a Communion hymn. He read Scripture and prayed daily. The President was convinced that God was accessible, both through prayer and in His revealed word, which provided both strength and comfort. He also found occasion, said the his torian, to interpret as the Lord's will convictions that other men attributed to less remote sources, and to find...
...collective Isaac. The Lampoon cannot, therefore, sacrifice itself in order to affirm the Absurd truth it hopes to represent. The members of the Lampoon should not be expected to take the final step backwards (tripping on the banana peel as they do so), and arrive at a Religious communion with the Absurd. They will continue to reject through humor rather than accept through humor for as long as they need the Law as straight man. This is why the grey agreement reached last week between the administration, HRBSA, and the Lampoon will not be adhered to by the members...
Although the end of excommunication restores remarried Catholics to the margins of church life, they are still forbidden to receive Communion. Thus, says O'Donnell, the action is most important as "a gesture of love and reconciliation." The bishops hope that alienated Catholics will resume church activity and look into the possibility of getting church annulments of their original marriages. If they do, they will discover that the grounds for granting annulments have widened greatly in recent years, and that cases are handled locally under streamlined procedures...
...bishops also came close to endorsing a much-disputed liturgical change advocated by A Call to Action: letting worshipers receive the Communion wafer in the hand instead of on the tongue if they prefer. If enough additional bishops endorse the change in a mail ballot, the proposal will go to the Vatican for final approval. Many conservatives are deeply upset about the new practice, which they consider irreverent. John Cardinal Carberry of St. Louis even warned that wafers might be taken and used in satanic masses...