Word: communionism
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...those decisions on their own." Says Father Eli Bauwens, of his parishioners at St. Brigid's in Los Angeles: "I've told them that what you do in your bedroom is your decision." Many have been divorced and remarried, and despite church rules, he quietly allows them to receive Communion anyway...
...interview with TIME, he looked healthier and more vigorous than recent press accounts have portrayed him. Yet he has been burned and battered by events and people, and his caution was like armor -- a shield that every modern President adopts eventually, no matter what vows he makes about open communion to the end. "There's always a target painted on the Chief Executive's door," he says...
There was a magic moment of communion between that woman behind the door and me; it lingered a moment, and then I passed on. My friend later offered to introduce me to Lansbury, but I knew it would never happen. The moment was gone. A brief spark struck between two kindred souls illuminated the night and was gone as quickly as it had come...
...COMMUNION...
...million-member United Church of Christ last week became the first U.S. Christian body to authorize ritual recognition for divorce. Along with its Communion, marriage and burial forms, the U.C.C.'s revised Book of Worship (prepared mainly to drop male-biased language) includes a five-page "Order for Recognition of the End of a Marriage." In the new rite, conducted after a civil divorce, the minister announces that a husband and wife have decided to dissolve their marriage "after much effort, pain and anger," and the once married couple then recite words of regret and respect...