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Wrinkled women in kerchiefs and Reeboks sort through communion cards and candlesticks. Choir and clergy robes of every color, reminiscent of Harvard's multihued commencement gowns, sway as soft rock filters past the statues of the Madonna...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: Cashing in on Christ | 3/4/1995 | See Source »

...busiest time is Christmas. Definitely. We get lots for First Communion too. Our business mostly coincides with major religious feasts," O'Malley says...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: Cashing in on Christ | 3/4/1995 | See Source »

Just because he is pro-choice and a Protestant, is it not kosher for Nebraska Senator BOB KERREY to take Communion in the Roman Catholic Church? Kerrey had been doing that for more than a year-only to discover to his embarrassment that it's against church rules. After an official of Nebraska's Right to Life committee complained, Kerrey announced that he would no longer participate in Communion ceremonies, but plans to continue attending Mass anyway. "It's a great church," he says. "I like the values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 20, 1995 | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

Never heard of it? Ask your parents. Althoughthe company is expanding and doing better thanever, Necco hit its name-recognition peak sometimearound when our parents were developing theirfirst crushes. Every good American kid wasfamiliar with the Necco wafer; priests placed thethin pastel discs on the tongues of childrenpracticing communion. Byrd brought the wafers tothe South Pole, and Macmillan took packages ofthem on his trip to the Arctic. Necco'shoneycomb/peanut Bolster Bar preceded the BartSimpson-famed Butterfinger. Upon the 1938launching of the Skybar, "a candy box in a bar,"skywriters and low-flying planes with trailingbanner-advertisements circled most of theNortheast...

Author: By Lisa K. Pinsley, | Title: NECCO Philia | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

...soft spot, likes to bait Italy's liberal press with his diatribes against gays, feminists, AIDS victims, unwed mothers and pro-choice activists. He has led a campaign to abolish the music of Mozart and Schubert from the Mass, and he once likened ordaining women as priests to celebrating Communion with Coca- Cola. Says he: "Defending the truth as it has been revealed by God is the most elementary and necessary act of charity toward others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Will Be First Among Us? | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

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