Word: communionism
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Prelate Byrne's threatened denial of the sacraments of communion and confession to a Miss Universe contestant and her Catholic mother [July 20] is just another very good reason for being an American Protestant...
...statewide beauty contest, which entitled her to compete for the Miss Universe title this week at the international beauty contest in Long Beach, Calif., and her archbishop had said that if she did, he would deny the sacraments of Communion and confession to both her and her mother (her father is not Catholic) for "an indefinite period of time." Philadelphia-born Archbishop Edwin Vincent Byrne, 67, like many another prelate, feels that females should be well covered in public. At his insistence, the beauty contest won by Sue Ingersoll held its bathing-suit judging in private, with only members...
Patricia is stunned that death has resulted from her innocent game. Disillusioned, she goes off to school, presumably to lose forever in civilization her unique communion with simple beasts...
Simone was more pious than her mother when she entered parochial school; she received Holy Communion three times a week and tried to practice self-mortification by scrubbing herself raw with pumice. But the day came when her longtime father-confessor charged her with arrogance and disobedience. Simone got flaming mad: "His priest's robe was only a disguise; it covered an old busybody who fed on gossip. With burning face I left the confessional, determined never to set foot in it again...
...Sunday morning at 8 a.m., the Harvard Band will participate in the 21st Communion Breakfast of the Cambridge Police Department. The parada, featuring local dignitaries, will assemble at Porter Sq. and proceed to Rindge Ave. and Our Lady of Pity Church...