Word: communionism
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...order were the guarantee of the substance of the Church, Roman Catholicism would have a better claim to having preserved the full substance of the Church than any other communion...
...things fill me with concern regarding present trends in this country within our great sister communion, the Roman Catholic Church. The first is its increasing commitment to a Roman, as distinguished from the traditionally independent, policy of American Catholicism. Such a trend has inevitably produced in history the phenomenon called clericalism, which has been the bane of Latin lands and from which we in the United States have been providentially spared. Clericalism is the pursuit of power, especially political power, by a religious hierarchy, carried on by secular methods and for purposes of social domination...
...last morning, as they gathered for Communion at a bare table, a loaf of bread was passed around for each to break, an earthen Communion cup for all to drink from. The final prayer of the "hungry men" of Kirkridge: that they might achieve "a new, hardbitten, humble dedication to neglected but crucial tasks...
...when chic society disintegrated at the approaching threat of German boots, Trinity's Dean Frederick W. Beekman fled to the U.S. Organist Whipp, left in charge, moved into the deanery to run the church. He held services for the few remaining parishioners (he could not perform Holy Communion), baptized six children, buried 40 Americans, visited and comforted the sick...
...King (on the advice of the Prime Minister), centered around two names: Dr. Cyril Forster Garbett, 69, Archbishop of York, and Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 57, Bishop of London. But one thing was certain: there is no one else quite like William Temple in the whole Anglican Communion. London's Tory Times and Communist Daily Worker mourned him equally...