Word: communion
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...yearns for, reflects, and presupposes a radiant otherness called God. Compared to Justice's rigorous goading of the individual conscience, such religiously oriented plays as Eliot's The Cocktail Party, Greene's The Potting Shed, MacLeish's J.B. and Chayevsky's Gideon seem like Communion services for the morally complacent...
Most Southern churches insist upon rebaptizing converts from other Christian denominations before admitting them to "closed" Communions. The more liberal American Baptists allow anyone who accepts Jesus as Lord to take Communion in their churches. Northern Baptists favor interfaith cooperation; the Southern Baptists are the largest Protestant group not in the National Council of Churches...
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...
...specific program of action could then be worked out before the Communion's Lambeth Conference...