Word: communionism
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...Wallach, within a few hackneyed lines, manages to create a character. But after he spreads some suspicions and turns up a body, the film makers take him off the case. He and his very human rationality are left far behind as the film spirals downward through blood, perversity, communion with the damned and pseudoreligious mumbo jumbo...
...Episcopal Church's acceptance of homosexuals to the Holy Sacrament of Communion and now as priests [Jan. 24] is too much. The church's apparent desire to "get with it," as evidenced by its other activities in revising the liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer, has caused much dissatisfaction among its members. Yet the hierarchy continues to press on. This latest abomination is the end. I hereby resign my membership in the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...next morning 75 people gathered at All Saints', a racially mixed inner-city parish, as Means for the first time celebrated Communion, and Rector John Eastwood pleaded for the flock to be charitable. His concern stemmed from vocal opposition to his new priest, and the fact that ten people out of a parish membership of 150 have resigned in protest. Some of Means' opponents are alienated by her. aggressive, mildly profane style. (She will, for example, say "Oh Jesus" on occasion.) Other parishioners disapprove of ordaining women on principle. But many members are delighted. Said Sarah Mallory...
Expand Grounds. Although there was no breakdown on how many of last week's participants were regular or, for whatever reason, estranged members, church officials reported numerous calls from divorced and remarried Catholics who have yearned for Communion. Under an 1884 decree of the U.S. hierarchy, such people are automatically excommunicated until their previous spouses die. The Memphis ceremony was not a permanent change in discipline. All those who took Communion were instructed to make individual confessions later. Those who are divorced and remarried, in Memphis as elsewhere, must gain annulments, in which the church rules that their previous...
...never been involved with anything seamier than hatching tadpoles in Richter's biology lab? Who had never shown more knee than the Brobdingnagianized safety-pin on her scotch-kilts would allow? Who had never pressed more flesh than when doing the Virginia Reel at Lucy Karambelas's Holy Communion Ball...