Word: communionism
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...weight. Over a late drink in a West End club, young Tories have confided that they wish "someone would mow the front bench down with a machine gun," or that "the old man, God bless him, would throw in the towel." They feel that some senior Tories have no communion with the new Britain...
...stuffed them in his pocket for use on further occasions. His work made him nervous, and he often took roundabout routes to a date for fear of assassins or kidnapers. He was a quiet little man, known to few, but those few always noticed that when he took Communion at church, he pulled on his gloves to receive the host while others took theirs off. In 1934, his only son was drowned. Some say it was in suicidal flight from the prospect of following his father's profession...
...Dried, the fruits look like buttons of half-dollar size, brown with a pale center. For 15 years the peyote habit has spread. Alarmed as early as 1940, the Navajo Tribal Council outlawed peyote, but the ban could not be enforced. The peyote button had been adopted as a Communion host by the Native American Church, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, wary of a "religious freedom" issue, refused to interfere...
...decree calling for "frequent and [even] daily Communion" settled a longstanding church controversy, silenced those who had argued that man was unworthy to take the Eucharist except at long intervals...
...young people by putting congregations and communities to work, instead of leaving it up to the present inadequate combination of Sunday schools and "released time" education. ¶The admission of the Greek Orthodox Church as the 30th constituent member of the National Council (and its fifth Eastern Orthodox communion), pending approval of the 1952 General Assembly. Officially established in 1922, the Greek Orthodox archdiocese in the U.S. currently claims 1,000,000 communicants with 320 churches, 500 parochial schools, 320 Sunday schools, one theological school. ¶The appointment of the National Council's first full-time evangelist...