Word: communion
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...Saturday before Thanksgiving. As much as that holiday and Christmas, the nine-day season is a time when families and friends gather. In the woods, men, women and children all join in, and a child's first excursion is often viewed as a rite nearly as solemn as First Communion. But this year the joy was interrupted almost as soon as it began. On Sunday, Nov. 21, a man in the North Woods opened fire on a group of fellow hunters, all clad in the orange garb that is supposed to prevent accidental shootings, leaving six dead and two wounded...
...that their unsupervised kids are taking life lessons from the sex, drugs and weirdness spewing from their televisions and computers. Liberals scoff, but the balm that comes with being part of a religious community-the Bible study, youth groups, choirs and, yes, the moral absolutes that often accompany such communion-is real and comforting, unlike the promise of complicated and expensive government programs...
...legal status as parents and allow them to marry. In Ireland, another former Roman Catholic bastion, politicians from all parties meet this week to discuss whether the constitution should be changed to give homosexual couples the same rights as heterosexual ones. In England, the leaders of the worldwide Anglican Communion last week issued a report saying that if its pro - and anti - gay factions couldn't reconcile their differences then "we shall have to begin to learn to walk apart." And in Sweden, evangelical pastor Ake Green is appealing a one - month prison sentence for preaching that homosexuality represents...
...just Roman Catholics who struggle with gay rights, though. Bitter rows over homosexuality have ruptured the 70 - million - strong Anglican Communion. Last week a panel set up by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams published its recommendations on how to defuse a crisis that boiled over last year when American Episcopalians consecrated an openly homosexual bishop and a Canadian diocese authorized church blessings for same - sex unions. Those positions may reflect popular secular opinion in some parts of North America, but they have infuriated conservative Anglicans all over the world. Josiah Iduwo - Fearon, an archbishop in the fast - growing, 17.5 - million...
...also be predictive. In electing the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, an actively gay man, as a bishop in 2003, the Episcopal Church U.S.A. placed itself at the excruciating center of American mainline Christianity's struggles over homosexuality and at odds with much of the international Anglican Communion to which it belongs. In mid-October the communion will publish a task-force report expected to address the effect of Robinson's election on the American church's Anglican status; a task-force news release promised "radical changes." Conservatives hope that at a minimum, the findings will act as a lever...