Word: communionism
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...odds with shock tactics. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, O'Connor's predecessor as pro-life chairman, says that "the church can be most effective in the public debate on abortion through moral persuasion, not punitive measures." On the other hand, San Diego's Bishop Leo Maher denied Communion to a pro-choice Catholic who was running for the California senate...
...faulted by both liberals and traditionalists for chronic indecision. Runcie's defenders say his cautious style helped work a miracle or two in preventing world Anglicanism from flying apart over women priests and bishops. Yet the compromises he engineered merely paper over the fact that the Anglican Communion is barely a Communion any longer. Some of its 27 autonomous national branches -- including the U.S. Episcopal Church -- ordain women priests, who are not recognized by Runcie's mother church and other branches. Nonrecognition of priests (male and female) ordained by women bishops will further muddy the waters...
...years enjoyed the regular support of Copley's conservative Republican papers. So have other candidates for county and state office after O'Connor introduced them to her powerful friend. One recent beneficiary was newly elected State Senator Lucy Killea, a Democrat famed for having been banned from Catholic Communion for her pro-choice abortion stand...
...some disinterested observers, the warnings about damnation seemed rather medieval, like a penitent monarch shivering in the cold at Canossa. But something quite substantial is involved here. In another much publicized conflict, San Diego Bishop Leo Maher denied Communion to Lucy Killea, a pro- choice Catholic candidate for the California senate (who predictably won her race after the bishop's ban was announced...
...rose and chanted the Lord's Prayer at the top of their voices. As the service went on, police arrested 43 demonstrators, and carried many out on stretchers when they refused to stand. Churchgoers who dodged the chaos in the aisles and made it ! to the altar to take Communion saw one protester take a wafer from a priest and throw it to the ground...