Word: communionism
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With this firm keynote, 329 bishops and archbishops of the Anglican Communion reported last week on the results of the eighth Lambeth Conference.* On Oct. 10 their encyclical letter will be read to congregations around the globe in a hundred languages. Lambeth's proceedings do not bind the communion's 20,000,000 members. But as the London Times observed: "This solid body of coherent theological doctrine . . . must be regarded ... as a formidable fact in world thought and opinion...
Scobie is incapable of wounding his wife by admitting his relations with the girl-and equally incapable of wounding the girl by breaking off their relations. To reassure his wife, who has heard the gossip, he receives Communion when he is in this state of mortal sin; and at last it is the same sense of enormous "responsibility" that makes him decide that suicide is preferable to his prolonging the two women's agony...
...Easter [1947] High Mass was the most gripping and solemn service I ever experienced. Sixty Lutheran P.O.W.s from the Bible belt near Bielefeld, Germany, approached me on Holy Saturday night and asked for permission to come to our Catholic liturgy and Holy Communion. My heart stood still for a moment. By questioning them, I found out that all of them believe in the Real Presence,† that nearly all of them were used to confessing their sins, and all knew how to elicit perfect contrition. All had been baptized . . . by believing Lutheran ministers...
...prohibition reiterated by the Vatican only last month (TIME, July 5). † Of Christ in the consecrated bread and wine of Holy Communion...
...Archbishop of Canterbury welcomed the bishops last week in words that many an Anglican will remember: "Our communion is no longer English or British or Anglo-Saxon . . . But it is still called the Anglican, the English Communion; and though the word is no longer altogether appropriate for this diverse family of autonomous churches, yet it bears witness to a truth of the past and to a truth of the present . . . Every one of the churches here represented traces its ancestry back to the church of these islands, and so to Canterbury and to St. Augustine ... To that tradition of Christian...