Word: communionism
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Although the end of excommunication restores remarried Catholics to the margins of church life, they are still forbidden to receive Communion. Thus, says O'Donnell, the action is most important as "a gesture of love and reconciliation." The bishops hope that alienated Catholics will resume church activity and look into the possibility of getting church annulments of their original marriages. If they do, they will discover that the grounds for granting annulments have widened greatly in recent years, and that cases are handled locally under streamlined procedures...
...late-afternoon traffic jam clogged the Via Nazionale outside, Archbishop Coggan spoke challengingly to a congregation of Roman Catholic and Anglican clergy from the gothic pulpit of the American Episcopal Church of St. Paul. In announcing his desire for a shared communion now, the Archbishop argued that the churches face "an evangelistic task whose size escalates with the multiplying millions. 'Talk to us about reconciliation,' a skeptical world says to us, 'when you yourselves are reconciled.' " Noting that in many areas of the world Anglicans and Catholics already drink from the same chalice, Coggan asked...
...plan to take a little church in Alabama, Father, preach the gospel, turn bread into flesh, forgive the sins of Buick dealers, administer communion to suburban housewives...
...moppets in sex acts with adults or other kids. The films are even raunchier. An 8-mm. movie shows a ten-year-old girl and her eight-year-old brother in fellatio and intercourse. In another film, members of a bike gang break into a church during a First Communion service and rape six little girls...
...trying vainly to keep up with his flashy younger counterparts. Arnold Palmer needs divine intervention to one-putt a green, much less win a tournament. Rod Laver won two Grand Slams in tennis but hasn't reached the finals of a major tournament since Jimmy Connors' first communion...