Word: communion
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What possesses the modern playgoer? Above all, it is the chance to get away from modern drama that represents little more than introverted self-communion, from little plays about miserable little people. In Shakespeare, he sees characters probed in Freudian depth, without the jargon. Instead of words that plop over the footlights like dead tennis balls, he hears language that surges like the sea. The modern stage bleats with special pleadings...
Burdens of History Sir: As a devout member of the Anglican Communion, I am profoundly shocked by the bias and misinformation in the June 6 article entitled "Two Miracles & 40 Saints." Granted that Roman Catholics were persecuted by members of my church in those days, this article seems to gloss over the fact that it was a terrible age when all religions persecuted all other religions e.g., Bloody Mary. FRANKLIN W. BARTLE Martinsville...
Says Bishop Stephen Bayne, the Archbishop of Canterbury's executive officer in the Anglican Communion: "The word missionary may have outlived its usefulness. It suggests a false picture of the secure, settled, stable church at home playing a Lady Bountiful role among the underprivileged, primitive people of the world. The younger churches have gifts to give -ideas, new improvisations, experimental techniques, fresh grasps of timeless moral problems...
...longtime (1924-49) professor of canon law at Catholic University of America in Washington, who last served the Vatican as nuncio to Peru. Last fall the Vatican switched Italian-born Archbishop Lardone to Istanbul as apostolic delegate to Turkey's 200,000 Catholics, mostly Eastern Rite Christians in communion with Rome. Turkey in turn has sent its first ambassador to the Vatican, veteran diplomat Nurettin Vergin...
None of the articles are as sweeping as those of the 1461 synod, which was directed at the tightening up of the laxities of Renaissance Rome, and established the Easter duties of confession and Communion, set up temporal penalties for blasphemy, forbade gambling, fortunetelling, sorcery, secret marriage, marriage with blood relatives, marriage in Lent and Advent, ordered parents to keep infants under one year in cribs and ordered priests to eschew fancy hairdos. For the most part the new constitutions restate and re-emphasize existing provisions of canon law, apply old disciplines to new situations. Items...