Word: communionism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...quickly quashed after angry parishioners complained to the archdiocese. Says Chicago's Joseph Cardinal Bernardin: "It was I who indicated to Father Kenneally that 'you are going against church discipline.' " At a meeting in January, church members will debate a proposal to allow lay people to preside over a Communion service once a month using wine and wafers that have been previously consecrated by a priest. Whatever the outcome, Kenneally is certain the church will eventually accept married priests and ordained women. He says, "These things are inevitable...
...parish, the bitterest battles are usually fought within the hearts of individual parishioners trying to square their own faith with the dictates of Rome. For Bruce Schermerhorn, 47, the struggle escalated when he got divorced in 1976. Remarried by a judge in 1985, he attended Mass regularly without taking Communion. "I've always had an adversarial relationship with the church," he says. Last year, after joining a weekly men's prayer group, he finally decided to take Communion. "Well, I wasn't struck down by a bolt & of lightning and the ceiling didn't open up," he says. "The church...
Within three years he had left to set up his own Geneva-based cult, the Order of the Solar Temple, and a network of clubs that promoted his lectures and served as recruitment centers. He adapted Catholic rituals, including communion offered at masses where he played the priest. Like David Koresh, he eventually began urging his followers to stockpile an arsenal of weapons to prepare for the end of the world. In 1993 he fled Canada after pleading guilty to charges that he had tried illegally to obtain three guns with silencers...
Last meal: Holy Communion...
...Global Business Network, a think tank, says that in the pre-quant days, Wall Street was patriarchal, intuitive, much more related to the world as it was. But hard-core quants, he complains across the generation gap, "are almost idiots savants with numbers . . . There is an almost prayerful communion with the computer. They're intense and operate to a rhythm. If you ask them a question, they turn and their eyes are glazed, coming out of whatever cyberspace they are in." In this trance, he says, "they're not really in a world of other people. They think they...