Word: sacrament
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...Catholic Sacrament of confession is an ancient form of psychiatry (or that psychiatry is a secular corruption of confession) is common among Catholics, and shared by some non-Catholics. But the assumption is founded on ignorance: few Catholics know enough about psychiatry and few secularists enough about confession to see the deep-set difference between them. An articulate exception is the Rev. Victor White, a British Dominican, who writes about the difference in the current issue of the Catholic weekly, Commonweal...
...whatever denominational name Christians call themselves, whether they receive the Sacrament standing or kneeling at an altar rail or in their pews, whether they drink wine in a chalice, or grape juice in a paper cup, or drink nothing at all, Christians all over the world next Sunday will be performing the supreme Christian rite-the Holy Communion...
...accused by a rich man, convicted. He became a peasant, working his farm to support his wife and ten children. But again, the call of God was too strong. He left his family and retired to a ravine, where for 20 years, it is said, he ate only the Sacrament and drank nothing...
Dazed, wild-eyed survivors, most of them dyed green by chemicals, scuttled off down the littered streets. They were soon met by police cars, fire trucks, ambulances and mobs of curious and frightened people. Franciscan friars ran for the wreckage, robes held high, to give the last sacrament. Firemen pried at timbers, pulled at protruding arms and legs. Fifteen bodies were found. One of the victims, a twelve-year-old Negro boy, had been killed by a section of iron pipe as he rode his bicycle two blocks away...
...visited one of our companies in biivouac. I roamed through the area, greeting and chatting with men.. . The priest, however, was soon surrounded in the conspicuous center of the encampment by kneeling men 'going to confession' and receiving the 'consolation of the holy sacrament.' Something was obviously going on which was meaningful to the Catholics, and impressive to the non-churched as well as to the Catholics...