Word: communionism
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...prehistory, was a kind of redeemer, a mediator between man and a supreme god. Born miraculously (out of a rock), he was first adored by gift-bearing shepherds. He suffered various adversities but at last ascended to heaven. Mithraism used bells and candles in its ritual, as well as communion and holy water. It taught immortality of the soul, the resurrection of the flesh and the last judgment...
...Evanston World Council Assembly and the Archbishop of Canterbury . . . Few men so well epitomize in their own persons the ideals and spirit of ecumenical Christianity, and none moved more helpfully through the Evanston Assembly. But TIME'S stated reason for its choice-that "the worldwide Anglican Communion [is] the exemplary ecumenical church"-is not wholly convincing. If what TIME means is that the Anglican Communion embraces extremes in doctrine, polity and politics, that is a fact . . . On the other hand, if TIME is echoing the claim, so dear to many Anglicans, that the Anglican Communion has a providentially destined...
...must preside over week-long sessions of the Church Assembly, which is the parliament of the church. Between sessions he must approve every significant action taken by the church. He is in charge of worldwide missionary work and is senior member, though without direct authority, of the Anglican Communion (estimated membership: 40 million), which calls on him for advice and counsel. He also serves as spiritual adviser to the royal family...
...demolish his parish church and build a new one, bold enough to design the blueprint himself. When Elwin's parishioners fell ill, "his Rev" (as he was called) was their doctor; when his wife had children, he acted as midwife. He had amiable eccentricities, such as cutting the Communion bread "into small squares, some for the communicants and some for his canaries." But the favorite hobby of this self-assured, broadminded parson was corresponding with growing girls, listening to their troubles and helping them with affectionate advice...
...garden of the Palais-Royal beneath the novelist's windows; four days later she was buried with a state funeral. But the Roman Catholic Church denied her its rites. At 81, Novelist Colette-whose books were far from other-worldly-had been twice divorced, was long out of communion with the church. Last week, in the weekly Figaro Littéraire, British Novelist Graham (The End of the Affair) Greene, a Roman Catholic convert, took Paris' Cardinal Archbishop Feltin to task for his decision. Wrote Greene...