Word: communion
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...Protestants explored areas of common religious interest in a tone that was far different from the bitter polemics of past centuries. Germany's top Protestant leaders were on hand, including Bishops Otto Dibelius of Berlin and Hanns Lilje of Hannover. Each day of the Kirchentag began with Communion in 16 churches, went on to Bible classes and lectures in ten great halls...
Half the ministers doubt that the value of the sacrament of Communion depends entirely upon the attitude of the participant, while less than 20% of the laymen show any uncertainty...
...Sixty percent of the ministers reject the belief that if a person takes Holy Communion, "he is automatically a better person," but only 46% of the laymen reject the idea completely...
Refusing the $2,100 stipend allotted him by the church, John Strong supports his wife and two children on his $28 weekly factory pay (plus overtime). He usually officiates in his overalls at Communion before scurrying to catch a 6:50 train to work, spends lunchtime visiting the sick or talking to fellow workers, rushes home at 5:30 for parish work and sermon-writing. To the four other worker-priests, such a schedule is too rough; they only help out as assistant vicars when needed...
...judge by the action of Archbishop Edwin Vincent Byrne in threatening to deny the sacraments of Communion and confession to both Sue Simone Ingersoll and her mother for Sue's acts [July 20], then it would seem that the Roman Catholic Church has taken a leaf from Communism's book. It has learned how to punish an offender through the offender's loved ones...