Word: communionism
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...having avoided the real issues facing the church?Christian unity and a radical revision of the church's institutions and forms. England's Canon F. H. Drinkwater, for example, wonders how Pope John would feel about his council "wasting month after precious month over such trivialities as concelebration, or Communion in both kinds, or new definitions about Our Lady...
...other major issue before the House of Bishops was Pike's authorizing a deaconess to distribute previously consecrated elements at a Communion service (TIME, April 30). This radical departure from church tradition, Pike told the bishops, was based on an ambiguously worded canon on deaconesses approved by last year's general convention, which implied, to him, that women were "ordered" to the diaconate just as men are. To close this loophole, a committee proposed a new resolution enumerating the "chief duties" of deaconesses that excluded distribution of Communion. Ex-Lawyer Pike quickly spied the flaw: distributing Communion could...
...roots, is particularly susceptible to the fundamentalist approach, and plans a proselytizing trip there this fall. He crows about some schismatic Nigerian parishes that have recently joined the L.C.C.C., and hopes to corral other dissidents such as Kenya's Bishop Matthew Ajouga, who walked out of the Anglican Communion. Asia is also Mclntire's happy hunting ground. He claims that a majority of Korea's Protestants, as well as many from Taiwan and the Philippines, are represented in the L.C.C.C...
...theory that most Catholics hardly ever commit a sin serious enough to justify it. Catholics, they say, should be free to rely on their own consciences and receive Com munion without first making a confession. Normally, Catholic children today make their first confession and receive their first Communion at the age of seven or eight; in some cases in Germany children are allowed to go to Communion at five or six, but they do not make their first confession until they are a few years older...
More Forgiveness. So far, most Roman Catholic bishops are cool to the idea of de-emphasizing private confession, although advocates of general confession can muster good arguments for their cause. Brother Philip believes that general confession would make sacramental forgiveness more readily available to more people, bring back to Communion Catholics who for one reason or another cannot or will not confess to a priest. General confession, moreover, would have special value in such countries as Brazil, where millions of rural Catholics see a priest no more than once a month; for many, private confession is impossible. In fact, general...