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Vulgarization? Nonetheless, the bishops, by a vote of 103 to 36, approved the statement, with two minor deletions. The statement rejected the "tone and manner" of Pike's theologizing as "highly disturbing within the communion of the church," criticized his writings as being too often "marred by caricatures of treasured symbols." The criticism of Pike was apparently good enough for Louttit; at a caucus later, he and his fellow bishops on the "Committee for the Defense of the Faith" agreed to drop their demand for a trial...
...typically American for college coeds to approach perfect strangers with plowing descriptions of Negro sexual prowess (which, of course, is much greater than white). The authors also leave the impression that many U.S. churches use conveyor belts to serve worshipers with iced wine and neatly wrapped wafers during Communion service. Short Walk is only a youthful indiscretion, like roof climbing or too much sherry at an Old Lit dinner, but it may also disabuse some readers of the notion that all Oxford students are bright...
...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...