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Notre Dame Church was quiet. The celebrant had just finished the prayer before Communion. "Lord I am not worthy that you should come under my roof. Speak only a word and I shall be healed," the celebrant intoned in French...
...somber rows of mantillas that once filled cathedral pews. In their place are bare heads, wispy dresses, blue jeans, even miniskirts. As in other Roman Catholic churches around the world, the liturgy has been modernized. Women and children now pass collection plates. Worshipers sometimes help themselves to the Communion host. Guitars and drums accompany new Spanish hymns set to such internationally recognized tunes as Michael, Row the Boat Ashore and Blowin' in the Wind...
Tall, white and handsome, the Most Rev. Michael Ramsey, hundredth Archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, made ecclesiastical history by preaching in Manhattan's Roman Catholic St. Patrick's Cathedral at a service attended by Terence Cardinal Cooke and Archbishop lakovos of the Greek Orthodox Church of North and South America. He also caught a performance of the controversial rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar and observed: "In spite of everything, a bit of Christianity did come over." Other Ramseyisms: "There is a bit of a wish for women priests in England, but I should...
...established by the Church of England after its 16th century split with Rome, said that transubstantiation was "repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions." Thus the difference in the way they look on the rite of Communion is one of the major barriers in reuniting the two churches...
This is only the latest in a series of quiet, significant steps in ecumenical theology. In recent years, while the Anglican Communion has been down grading its Thirty-Nine Articles, many Catholic scholars have been reinterpreting the doctrine of transubstantiation. Last week's accord leaps over all the Reformation rhetoric and states simply that Communion presupposes Christ's "true presence, effectually signified by the bread and wine, which, in this mystery, become his body and blood." But the document does not use the term transubstantiation except in a footnote that carefully affirms Christ's presence...