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...York the following day, the Pope turned to his controversial and conservative social stands. Once again he defined the sacrament of marriage as "an unbreakable alliance of total mutual self-giving . . . It is unconditional." But his tone was paternal rather than condemnatory. Though the church refuses Communion to those in second marriages, John Paul spoke to the divorced with sympathy: "Christ himself, the living source of grace and mercy, is close to all those whose marriage has known trial, pain or anguish. We must reach out with love, the love of Christ, to those who know the pain of failure...
John Paul's charisma exuded its warmth in the sacrament of Anointing of the Sick at St. George's Cathedral later that afternoon. There, 4,000 ailing, disabled or dying parishioners watched in gratitude as the Pope personally administered the holy oil to many hands and foreheads of the seriously...
...Corpus Christi (Body of Christ) telephone directory lists: the Corpus Christi Flea Market, the Corpus Christi Mud Pit Services, the Corpus Christi Amusement Co., the Corpus Christi Speedway, and the Corpus Christi Pistol and Rifle Club. Where is the righteous indignation of Bishop Drury over these slurrings of the sacrament of the Eucharist...
...name, chosen by Texas Senator John Tower, was always intended to refer to the port city of 332,000 rather than the sacrament of the Eucharist. But many Roman Catholic priests and bishops insisted that selecting such a name for a warship that may well be armed with nuclear-tipped missiles was, in the words of Bishop Thomas Drury of Corpus Christi, "very nearly sacrilegious." Lehman, a Catholic, replied that church doctrine recognized the "unavoidable necessity of building and operating deterrent systems." Nonetheless, the protests swelled, and Representative Tony Hall, an Ohio Democrat, introduced a House resolution demanding a name...
...observes, was a civil contract based on mutual affection. When that affection perished, the marriage, like any civil contract, could be dissolved by mutual consent. This sensible arrangement, according to Alvarez, was compromised by Christianity. The early church fathers elevated a simple civil contract to an immutable spiritual sacrament: "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." When marriage became holy, divorce became damnable...