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...P.D.P. would "inevitably" be guilty of sin. Nevertheless, Muñoz won an overwhelming victory at the polls. At all Sunday Masses last week, the pastor of San Juan Cathedral, Father Thomas Maisonet, told parishioners who voted for P.D.P. that they must confess this "sin" before they can receive Communion again. Speaking on his own authority, but evidently with the bishops' backing, Maisonet also said that, to gain absolution, penitents must promise not to support the P.D.P. in the future unless it changes its philosophy...
...statement and to similar edicts laid down by priests throughout Puerto Rico was violent. Doña Felisa Rincón de Gautier, the P.D.P. mayoress of San Juan, said: "At that moment, I felt that Father Maisonet was more a sinner than myself, for he was denying Communion to many good people who did not in their hearts believe that they had committed a sin." Doña Felisa defiantly announced that she intended to receive Communion without confessing or repenting her vote...
What draws congregations to City Temple is not chiefly its freedom from dogmatism or its open communion, but its high standard of preaching. In its zeal to get the best for its pulpit, the church has not confined itself to Englishmen (City Temple has had four U.S. ministers and one Australian) or to Baptists and Methodists, Britain's chief nonconformist denominations; in 1917 its minister was an Anglican woman, Dr. Maude Royden...
When it ended last week, the crusade was a clear success. Some 3,000,000 Argentines had flocked to the Buenos Aires cathedral, the number of Communion-receivers increased threefold, and baptisms and marriages numbered in the thousands. "The problem now is to keep up the good work," said Bishop Manuel Menendez. "This...
...Substituted a 10,000-word statement on Holy Communion for the 250-word statement in effect for 20 years. The new policy, which will guide 4.872 United Lutheran pastors, tentatively opens the door to celebration of Communion with Protestants of other denominations...