Word: communionism
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Mormon Jack Dempsey and his separated Baptist wife, Hannah Williams, got together to watch their older daughter, Joan, 6, make her first Communion as a Catholic...
Bankers took over the biggest Episcopal church in the Pacific Northwest last week -Seattle's massive, unfinished St. Mark's Cathedral. So last Sunday St. Mark's congregation had an early Communion service in a Greek Orthodox church, the regular morning service at the Women's Century Clubhouse (150 present...
...broadcast from an R. A. F. patrol plane over the Channel-especially topical because many Britons last week were saying "It would be just like that bloody Hitler to try his invasion on Christmas."* From amid the rubble and ruin of Coventry a broadcast was planned of Holy Communion in the 600-year-old crypt of the chapel of smashed Coventry Cathedral...
Unlike its sister churches in the Anglican Communion, the Protestant Episcopal Church of the U. S. has never had an archbishop. But last week it took a step to get itself within three years the next thing to an archbishop. Hitherto U. S. Episcopalians have merely chosen a Presiding Bishop, expected him simultaneously to run his own diocese and head the church at large. The present Presiding Bishop, the Right Rev. Henry St. George Tucker of Virginia, has a nationwide job but ecclesiastical authority only in Virginia. Most often he is in Manhattan, where he must get leave from Bishop...
...Dago Red (Viking; $2.50). It is perhaps 1940's best book of short stories: the sort many people wish that William Saroyan, with a grip on himself at last, would write. With the emotional richness of his race and his Church, Fante writes mostly of his childhood-First Communion, baseball ambitions, parochial schools, his volatile father, long-suffering mother-always an easier trick than to write well of the adult world. But his best tale, "A Wife for Dino Rossi," is grown-up stuff, sad, funny, brutal, tender...