Word: communionism
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...says Jesuit Weigel. are constantly complaining to him that Catholicism in the U.S. is "banal and too pedestrian. When a Latin American listens to a sermon, he wants to enjoy it with deep feeling ... I have seen Latin American boys who entered into almost ecstatic converse with Christ after Communion, though they skipped all parts of the Mass other than the Communion...
...Where he headed the committee considering The Family in Contemporary Society, which firmly endorsed birth control (TIME, Sept. 8). Bayne was the only American at this council of Anglican Communion bishops to head a major committee...
...Anglicans and Episcopalians, like most Protestant groups, do not share the Roman Catholic disapproval of birth control; contraception, they have long held, is permissible for both family planning and reasons of health. But the Anglican Communion's five-week Lambeth conference of bishops just concluded went a liberal's step further: it positively recommended contraception as a valuable liberating force in the family and in the enjoyment of sexual relations...
...Canterbury's 700-year-old cathedral, more than 300 bishops of the Anglican Communion knelt five rows deep on a crimson carpet to receive the blessing of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Bowed under the weight of his damask robes and overshadowed by a huge silver cross, Geoffrey Francis Fisher intoned: "We humbly beseech thee that thy Holy Spirit may lead into truth thy servants the bishops gathered together in thy name. Grant them grace to think and do such things as shall most tend to thy glory and the good of thy holy church." Thus last week opened...
...whom Pope Benedict XIV established a separate patriarchical see in 1742. This group is one of nine Eastern churches which differ in liturgy from Latin rite Catholics but are in communion with Rome in all matters of faith and morals. The other Eastern rites: Byzantine, Alexandrian, Antiochian, Chaldean...