Word: communionism
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...thesis throughout the world follows simple lines: society can survive only if each individual catches fire with the unselfish desire to live by standards of "absolute purity, absolute honesty, absolute unselfishness, and absolute love." Within the movement itself this involves "quiet times" in the Quaker manner providing for communion with God. To the world crisis this spells an attitude sweeping out at a nebulous "materialism" which is today's embodiment of the bad in human nature...
...fact of his memorial tablet being placed under the statue of the Wesleys [in Westminster Abbey], but for the sake of accuracy and for the credit of the Church of England, I would call to your attention the fact that Mr. Lyte was a clergyman of that communion, and not a Methodist, as stated in your article...
Members of the Communion of Navarre (an organization of crusading Catholics) had sent an open letter to all the bishops of Spain. No less than 34 new Protestant chapels, the letter claimed, had been opened in Spain with Government sanction between Nov. 26, 1945 and Dec. 2, 1946-a strange interpretation indeed of Article Six in the Spanish Bill of Rights: No one will be molested for his religious beliefs, nor in the private exercise of his cult [but) ceremonies and manifestations other than those of the Catholic religion will not be permitted...
Even more disturbing to the Communion was the recent statement made by Franco himself to a U.S. admirer, Publicist Merwin K. Hart. Franco told Hart that "other faiths which are not Catholic enjoy liberty in Spain. . . ." Said the letter of protest: "It is evident that the chapels about which the Chief of State spoke . . . constitute public exercises of cult, against the letter and spirit of the formula accepted by Rome. . . . These facts constitute a new attack on Catholic unity. The argument given that these declarations are necessary because of the campaign abroad by elements opposed to our country must...
...ordered the church to lift the mite. Andrew seemed satisfied, said, "I think they will think for some time before they put on any more bans." He would be permitted to worship in an Amish Church but he would have no voice in the church or be admitted to communion. To the stubborn Amishmen, who frown upon court actions, God's law came before that of men. Andrew would still be under a mite of a mite...