Word: communion
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...hostages held regular Christian services in their "Church of the Locked Door," using bits of bread to celebrate Communion. Anderson had been a lapsed Catholic but rediscovered his faith with the counsel of another prisoner, the Rev. Lawrence Jenco, who was freed in July...
...humane comprehension. But we sometimes suspect that it is the core of our true selves. In Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Everyman goes to a satanic meeting in a dark wood, and the devil declares, "Evil is the nature of mankind. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race...
...1960s, Object Lessons concerns three generations of a rich Irish clan who live in an established inner suburb of New York City. The patriarch, John Scanlan, is a lively if familiar fictional figure, a power-driven old sinner who started making Communion hosts at 21 and who now has vestment factories in Manila and construction companies closer to home. The Scanlans' milieu has much in common with the author's childhood as depicted in her columns: nuns, summers at the beach and minute, competitive skirmishes among preadolescent girls. Quindlen also relishes skewering pirates like John; to him the Kennedys...
...provocative prelate also has Roman Catholics fuming. A task force in his Newark diocese has just declared that Catholicism's view of women is "so insulting, so retrograde that we can respond only by saying that women should, for the sake of their own humanity, leave that communion." Spong handpicked the panel, and offers no particular criticism of its assertions, though he says he might have employed milder language. Newark's Catholic Archbishop, Theodore McCarrick, has decried the "offensive attacks" on Catholicism...
...past approached the Vietnam Memorial with trepidation, feeling I was intruding upon the grief of others. But on the first weekend of the air war against Iraq, I found myself impelled toward these sunken slabs on the Mall, as if this were the proper moment to seek communion with the wall of names. My thoughts jumbled as I stood there: schoolboy patriotism, the waste of war, the sands of time. Finally, I murmured, "I hope we have learned the right lessons from Vietnam. I hope I have...