Word: communionism
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There are no round-the-corner lines yet for the new penitential rite. But the failure to confess does not keep people away from Communion, as it once did. Churches across the U.S. report an increase in the proportion of their worshipers who receive weekly Communion-from about one-fifth of them a decade ago to more than half today. One possible reason: the newer Catholic teaching suggests that it is hard-not easy-for a reasonably religious person to commit mortal sins, the principal impediment that would keep someone from Communion...
...Communion with Protestants is becoming more common, although the Vatican allows it only under special circumstances, and bishops frown on casual intercommunion. At St. Thomas Aquinas parish in Ames, some of the town's many Protestants show up occasionally at Communion and are not turned away ("So many of them believe as we do," explains Pastor James Supple). Last Easter the Catholic and Episcopal chaplains at an Eastern university assisted a Lutheran minister in celebrating the midnight Eucharist-in a Dutch Reformed church. Catholics are generally enjoying a new freedom to attend Protestant and Jewish services. "In Oklahoma...
...about. I shall apply these unscientific terms to anyone who has gone to a psychiatrist in a state of crisis or anyone who has entered a mental hospital. I shall apply them to anyone who suffers from those inexplicable symptoms that seem as common as sunshine: a sense of communion with the supernatural, a sense of whirling lights and mysterious smells, a yearning for violence and the serenity of bloodshed. I shall even apply the term "crazy" to anyone who has simply felt, at one time or another, that his life was going out of control...
...individual confessions, once a weekly or monthly routine for the devout. Says Robert Burns, executive editor of U.S. Catholic magazine: "The church realized it had to do something-the situation was rapidly deteriorating." Among the causes: the waning of the once common belief that confession must always precede Communion, and the spread of more liberal concepts of sin. Another Catholic editor, Commonweal's John Deedy, believes the church is already "well down the road" toward elimination of individual confession. Whether those low-lit "reconciliation rooms" will prove him wrong remains to be seen...
...coolly professional political operative. In 1966, he was youth coordinator of Carter's first, unsuccessful campaign for Governor, then managed his winning gubernatorial drive in 1970 and became his executive secretary. Jordan describes himself as a late-blooming progressive. A cousin founded Koinonia (Greek for fellowship or communion), a biracial farm in southwestern Georgia that deeply offended Ku Klux Klan members and other white racists in the 1940s. Even so, Jordan as a teen-ager opposed the black civil rights movement, only to change his mind a few years later...