Word: communionism
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...lessen a Catholic?s time spent in purgatory ?- the heavenly holding pen outside the pearly gates. The pope announced the church will now give "partial" indulgences to parishioners who quit smoking, even for a day. (A full indulgence is achieved when the self-restraint is accompanied by confession and communion.) The money that would have been spent on the cigarettes should be donated to the needy, the manual intones. But besides enlarging charity coffers, what sort of spiritual good is done by a parishioner who stops smoking? Catholic officials call smoking, like drinking, "a mortification of the flesh," and maintain...
...care very much that the Lincoln bedroom has become a Motel 6 where the President of the United States serves as a bellhop," he said. "Most Americans care very much when monks and nuns abandon their vows of poverty and pay tens of thousands of dollars to have spiritual communion with the Vice President...
...care very much that the Lincoln bedroom has become a Motel 6 where the President of the United States serves as a bellhop," he said. "Most Americans care very much when monks and nuns abandon their vows of poverty and pay tens of thousands of dollars to have spiritual communion with the Vice President...
...religious strips are hard-core gospel. Last year Wiley's Dictionary, B.C.'s font of wacky definitions, featured "cross reference": no words, just three rags nailed to a cross, bearing biblical citations for Christ's suffering. The effect, for someone expecting the usual caveman shtick, is like finding a Communion wafer floating in the bowl with one's morning Cocoa Puffs...
Interested in UFOs? You can catch the latest from Whitley Streiber, the author of the Communion series. Streiber claims he was abducted by aliens on December 26, 1985, while vacationing in upstate New York...