Word: communionism
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...ghettos will probably further erode his Negro support. All the same, Specter is still a long way from city hall. Realizing he must press hard, Specter, who is Jewish, allowed himself a lapse from good taste last week when he quipped that the Irish Catholic Tate was attending "a Communion breakfast in a brewery." Actually, it was a brewery workers' breakfast held in a church hall. Tate leaped on the crack as an insult to Catholics, and Specter publicly apologized. Having shown a 2-to-l advantage in the early opinion polls, Specter's lead over Tate...
...usually a public ritual at which penitents openly disclaimed serious wrongdoings before the assembled congregation. Not until 1215 was confession to a priest made the norm for the church, by the Fourth Lateran Council. According to canon law, Catholics must confess any mortal (serious) sins before receiving Holy Communion, and as a rule they are expected to do so at least once a year...
...cause is the emphasis in the postconciliar church on the primacy of conscience-which means that lay Catholics are now far more certain of themselves as to whether or not they have sinned. "I used to consider anger a sin," says one Los Angeles housewife who goes to Communion frequently, although she has not been to confession since Christmas. "But now I simply don't feel guilty about yelling at the kids." Another is the repugnant medievalism of confessional practice-lining up before a dark, grilled box to recite one's inner secrets to an unseen judge...
Arthur Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre. He is Primate of all England and titular head of the 42 million member Anglican Communion...
...sure of victory. He threw two wild pitches. Another run scored. We leaned against each other, laughing, yelling, clapping strangers on the back and shoulders, Killebrew made an error. The fifth run came home, and we were close to our team, close to each other in this communion service...