Word: communion
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...their church. One of the strangest but most telling passages in Dean's recent stump speeches comes when he indulges in a romantic vision of 1968--a terrible year when America seemed to be falling apart but a time he remembers fondly as a moment of misty social communion. That, he says, is the America he seeks to re-create...
CONSECRATED. V. GENE ROBINSON, 56, as bishop of New Hampshire and the first openly gay prelate in the Episcopal Church; in Durham, N.H. Conservative Anglican church leaders around the globe declared a state of "impaired communion" with the American church but stopped short--for now--of a threatened official break. After receiving a standing ovation from a crowd of more than 3,000 gathered for the consecration, Robinson said: "It's not about me; it's about so many other people who find themselves at the margins...
When she photographed a Jewish giant at home with his parents or a Christmas tree in Levittown in fullest bleak regalia, Arbus was situated between complicity and awe, a place where irony is beside the point and mere compassion has been left behind for something like mordant communion. It all makes for some complicated feelings. There's not a false or sentimental image anywhere in this show, yet one of the final groupings of pictures, in which retarded children face the camera to throw us back at ourselves in difficult ways--can move you to places where tears...
...Church Divided U.K. Two days of crisis meetings in London between 37 Anglican primates failed to lift the threat of a schism in the worldwide church over the issue of homosexuality. In his attempts to keep the 70 million-strong Communion together, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams put aside his own personal views that same-sex partnerships, if stable and faithful, could be legitimate in God's eyes. His efforts were successful enough to secure a unanimous statement from deeply divided liberal and conservative primates. It warned that "the future of the Communion itself will be put in jeopardy...
...insistence on theological conformity inside the church was absolute, his warmth and generosity in reaching out to Christians outside the Catholic communion and to other faiths was without precedent. John Paul II will be remembered as much for his doctrinaire enforcement as for his ecumenical outreach - and the tension between those two qualities occasionally prompted his own theological enforcer, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, to issue pastoral letters clarifying the limits of the Vatican's embrace of the protestants or the Orthodox. But John Paul II has offered eloquent and heartfelt apologies to many of those he believes have been wronged...