Word: sacrament
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...Georgia and South Carolina, what of heavily Roman Catholic New Orleans, where Catholics have wound up in the same dilemma of spirit v. reality? New Orleans' ailing, octogenarian Archbishop Joseph Rummel spoke out sharply and clearly against school segregation as early as 1954. The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament recently advertised in the New Orleans Times-Picayune: "Forced segregation violates both justice and charity." But when the school crisis came last fall, the archbishop postponed parochial school desegregation until public school integration "has been effectively carried out." The wholly temporal reason was that parochial schools, which enroll half...
...would be in more serious trouble. And the Bishop who stamped the paper would have some deep thinking to do ... The biggest worry a Bishop has in connection with granting permission to live together-apart is the consideration of what possible abuse might be made of the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist [Communion]. Should a couple fall and still continue to receive, the responsibility for the unworthy reception of the Sacrament would lie directly with the Bishop for permitting such sacrilege." Eventually, Claire and John moved to a parish where the assistant priest took up their cause and obtained permission...
...with ghastly mutilations mates with another who crawls like a wounded toad to her rendezvous. Says one of the White Fathers: "Sometimes I think God was not entirely serious when he gave man the sexual instinct," but the offspring is baptized. Querry, however, is beyond love and beyond all sacrament, his only surviving faith a certain "regard for the truth." And so he is doomed, not only by Corruption, in the person of Parkinson, but by Innocence, personified in Marie Rycker, the child wife of a local factory operator. "God protect us from all innocence," remarks one character. "At least...
...prime example is the fast-growing liturgical movement, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, which emphasizes the centrality of the Mass or Communion for the church, and goes back for precedent to the early Christian practice whereby the congregation gathered around the Communion table and actively participated in the sacrament. "What we are seeking to restore." says San Francisco's Episcopal Bishop James Pike, "is the family around the table of the Lord...
...prayers or cry the tears that must be shed because all of this can only be done when he is permitted the luxury of facing his death." The clergymen administering to such a case "must speak guardedly of death as if it is years away; he must administer the Sacrament with no indication that this is probably the last time for confession, absolution, and real peace with God; he must see the mind that fades from narcotics is unable to perceive or react to any assurance about a fuller life." The only answer to the problem,Pasta Brooks feels...