Word: communionism
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...well might Democrats quake. Though three other sects have been indirectly affected by political pleas of one sort or another, the Walker pronouncement is the first direct appeal from the highest official of a denomination to all members of his communion. It is therefore signifcant as the possible beginning of a formal Dry crusade led by unanimous Elder Statesmen of U. S. Protestantism. Not carelessly to be dismissed are the following spurts, which though lacking the universal imprimatur of the highest church officials, may be taken as indicative of how a Protestant army is being mustered...
...deprive . . . him . . . and all his accomplices and abettors of the Communion of the Body and Blood of Our Lord, ... we separate him from the society of all Christians, ... we declare him excommunicated and anathematized, ... we deliver him to Satan to mortify his body, that his soul may be saved on the Day of Judgment. . . . Fiat, fiat, fiat...
...time to attend the 12:15 o'clock mass at St. Ambrose Church, in Detroit, received a severe surprise. Father Foley, their assistant pastor, surveyed them with a stern glance and said that in the future no woman who had paint upon her lips would be given holy communion from his hands. In sombre terms, such as his Pontiff recently used to condemn similar lapses in female behavior (TIME, May 14), Father Foley characterized the use of lipstick: "This practice is irreverent and unbecoming and I will not countenance...
Informed of the event, non-Catholics were properly impressed by this example of the technical propriety with which Catholics surround the sacrament. They wondered, nonetheless, whether such a rebuke might not be even more fitting when applied to the members of some Protestant sect who, when they take communion, actually touch the chalice with their mouths; rather than to Catholics who merely stick out their tongues to receive small circles of wafer...
...Kansas City, sat 40 bishops. Above them could be seen the U. S. flag, draped with elaborate tassels; also the Christian flag, an emblem composed of a red cross on a blue square in a white field. The organ console and the pulpit were in view, as was the communion table covered with a shining linen cloth. The spectators, of whom there were thousands sitting in the balconies, looked up at windows which were illumined by hidden lights. An electric cross was hung in a high arch and in a western balcony, near the invisible organ, sat 65 choristers. This...