Word: communionism
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...move in this direction. Said he in his Sunday sermon: "The publicity attendant on the departure of a priest of this church for Rome has highlighted the question of authority in the Episcopal Church. The statement of this former clergyman . . . illustrates the words of the bishops of the Anglican Communion at the Lambeth Conference [in 1948]: 'A perplexed generation is in search of an authority to which to give its allegiance and easily submits to the appeal of authoritarian systems, whether religious or secular...
...strength did not last for long. As he grew feebler, his old friend, Methodist Episcopal Bishop John Newman, who had finally managed to baptize him three months before, tried to persuade him to take Communion. "I would only be too happy to do so," scribbled U. S. Grant, "if I felt myself fully worthy. I have a feeling in regard to taking the sacriment [sic] that no worse sin can be committed ;han to take it unworthily. I would prefer therefor not to take it, but to have the funeral service performed when I am gone." After reading this note...
...hope Father Knox won't mind or be disturbed at finding a few non-R.C.s among the Communion of Saints. SHIRLEY HUME Boston...
Wisconsin's Larry Smith wanted to know if there shouldn't be some sort of confession of America's error in signing the wartime agreements. Replied Dulles: "Confession is always good for the soul." But the place for confession, he said, "is in the privacy of communion with one's God. I do not think a resolution which we want to vibrate around the world is the place for confession...
...West, Joachim's influence appeared at the extremes of two seemingly opposite movements. The most radical of the English Puritans thought that they could found on earth a "communion of saints" which would take over and perfect temporal government. The vigor of Renaissance humanism created in some minds other delusions about men like gods and another kind of confusion about heaven and earth. Example: Pope Leo X's "Let us enjoy the Papacy which God has given...