Word: communions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the celebration of Holy Communion, the 180 bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church last week closed the doors of St. Louis' Christ Church Cathedral for a solemn secret ballot to elect one of their number as Presiding Bishop. They took less than an hour to make the choice: the ;Rt. Rev. John Elbridge Hines, 54, fourth bishop of the Diocese of Texas, with headquarters in Houston. Mines succeeds Bishop Arthur Lichtenberger, 64, now so wasted by Parkinson's disease that his farewell address, a stirring summons to renewal, had to be read...
...Chicago's Priest-Sociologist Andrew Greeley, "the religious practice of American Catholics is far and away the best of any industrial nation in the world." One survey has indicated that 72% of U.S. Catholics go to Mass every Sunday, as canon law requires them to; 45% receive Communion at least once a month, and 66% go to confession at least twice a year...
...Protestant?" Earl Alex ander of Hillsborough, a Baptist, demanded of the Archbishop of Canterbury during debate in the House of Lords on a measure to permit more elaborate priestly vestments at Communion services. "I am a Protestant precisely in the way the Prayer Book and the Anglican formularies use that term," replied the Most Rev. Arthur Michael Ramsey...
...answer did not satisfy Lord Alexander. As far as he is concerned, Anglican Communion already resembles too closely the Roman Catholic Mass; and the measure to permit the use of the alb (a long-sleeved white tunic), the chasuble (a poncholike garment), the amice (a linen neckcloth) and the maniple (a band of cloth worn on the left arm) would strengthen what the London Times called a "drift toward the Roman Catholic form of service...
...hopelessly undermined when our fellow churchmen, claiming to speak in the name of Christ, make issues about clerical vesture. It confirms people's suspicion that when the crunch comes, the church doesn't care a damn about the things that matter. I would celebrate the Holy Communion service in my pajamas if I thought it would help someone to find faith...