Word: communionism
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...would violate a Tennessee law requiring racial segregation in schools. The faculty members promised to give the trustees until June 1953 to reconsider, before their resignations took effect. The trustees' position, they said, is "untenable in the light of Christian ethics and of the teaching of the Anglican communion...
...last 25 years of her life living and working in poverty at Meudon, near Paris. After Rodin's death, she turned her devotion to a collection of cats; almost the only humans she suffered were the nuns of Meudon and the orphans they cared for. She took Holy Communion each day, but when she was absorbed in painting she would forgo Mass for a month at a time. Her style changed drastically: while her early canvases were built up from thin, fluid paint, she now changed to thick paint, made her colors lighter and lighter...
...life in his search for religious certainty. He was brought up a Baptist, but turned to the Episcopal Church in college days (Yale '23) because he was distressed at the latitude of belief among Northern Baptists. But over the years, Father Kernan's satisfaction with the Episcopal communion began to wear thin. He wanted to speak for his church on such matters as birth control (which he opposes) and the invocation of the saints (which he advocates). But he found no binding pronouncements by Episcopal Church authority either in favor of these practices or against them. He felt...
...pressure of his doubts grew heavy, Episcopalian Kernan began looking outside his own communion, decided that he belonged in the Church of Rome. Last week, though he has no definite plans for supporting his wife and six children, he told his friends he felt like...
...knows the taste of race prejudice. A Tennessee boy who went to college in Pennsylvania, he came near being lynched years ago when he went back to Tennessee and preached about civil rights. As a minister, he has known the "utter humiliation" of standing in line at a joint communion service, while white clergymen invented some kind of excuse to avoid marching with...