Word: communionism
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Approaching a woman waiting to receive Communion last week at St. Brigid's Catholic Church in Pacific Beach, Calif., the priest paused hesitantly. Eying the National Organization for Women button she was wearing, he asked gravely: "Do you believe in abortion?" Just as seriously, she responded: "You mean I have to give my beliefs before I receive Communion...
...destroys her bedroom--Coppola seems to have spent most of his energy on a few grand set pieces. The big party scene in Godfather I, when Vito's daughter is married, set the precedent for this emphasis and Coppola has created several new ones--Michael's son's first communion, the funeral of Vito's widow, Michael's appearance before a congressional committee, and, most bizarre of all, a long cloak, dagger and revolution sequence in pre-Castro Cuba...
...ardently written, The Crucified God is an intellectual delight: Moltmann ranges over history, literature and philosophy to explore the fundamental alienation of the Cross, in which God paradoxically "takes upon himself the eternal death of the godless and the godforsaken, so that all the godless and godforsaken can experience communion with him." Moltmann forces the reader to face the difficult central questions of Christian faith and action in the light of that Cross, and creates a consummate theological work...
...attend. On the other hand, in the new survey, 6% of those questioned had attended a Catholic Pentecostal prayer meeting, a figure that if extrapolated to the U.S. Catholic population, would put the number of charismatic experimenters at well over 2 million. In another upward trend, recipients of weekly Communion have doubled, from...
...world burns; the Vatican still clings tenaciously to its medieval "canonization" process, whatever that term means today. Relics, miracles wrought in the name of the person considered for sainthood, etc., ad infinitum, all seem embarrassingly anachronistic. When will the Vatican face up to vital issues threatening the Roman communion? Why does Pope Paul carefully avoid issues like celibacy for diocesan clergy and ordination of women to the priesthood...