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...York the following day, the Pope turned to his controversial and conservative social stands. Once again he defined the sacrament of marriage as "an unbreakable alliance of total mutual self-giving . . . It is unconditional." But his tone was paternal rather than condemnatory. Though the church refuses Communion to those in second marriages, John Paul spoke to the divorced with sympathy: "Christ himself, the living source of grace and mercy, is close to all those whose marriage has known trial, pain or anguish. We must reach out with love, the love of Christ, to those who know the pain of failure...
...staggering number considering that the entire Scottish Catholic population totals 800,000. Families and groups of youths came with picnic baskets. To soccer-style chants and crescendos of applause, the Popemobile-a custom-made, bulletproof vehicle-rolled up and down aisles carrying the Pope high over the crowds. At Communion time the multitude adopted a respectful silence. By the time dusk had fallen, John Paul was being serenaded by the audience to the familiar strains of Auld Lang Syne. Michael Goodwillie, an unemployed young man who had waited through the night in the Glasgow park with his pregnant wife Mary...
...shower, and went to church. I was still drunk. It wasn't until the middle of the sermon that I sobered up...I was able to control myself; I wasn't wobbling. It's just like the buzz any priest would have if he chugged a glass of communion wine...
...Bible is far more widespread, and worship in common languages is the norm. While Rome still requires celibacy in the West, its Eastern rites retain their tradition of married priests. It has partially restored the practice that the laity may receive wine as well as bread during Communion, a point of sharp conflict in the 16th century. Other concessions flowed out of Vatican II, but a host of differences remains-including highly emotional issues, such as mixed marriages, divorce discipline, birth control, the rights of the laity and the official acceptance of abortion by some Anglicans and Lutherans. A grand...
...Communion. To the casual eye, the four groups of Christians seem to hold roughly the same beliefs about the Eucharist. But the divisive, central question concerns belief in the "real presence" of Christ's body and blood in the Communion elements. In their talks with Vatican delegates, the Lutherans have affirmed the actual "presence of Christ's body and blood in, with and under bread and wine." The Anglican-Catholic unity commission jointly professes belief in Christ's "true presence, effectually signified by the bread and wine, which, in this mystery, become his body and blood...