Word: sacramentalism
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...This exhibit is a Soviet caricature of the Sacrament of Holy Communion. It is depicted in such a gross, revolting and ghastly form that its public reproduction is impossible. The dismembered and disembowelled body of the dead Christ, depicted in a pale green hue, is surrounded by a group of priests, peasants and laymen who are ravenously devouring the flesh and drinking the blood which pours from the Saviour's side. Several of the figures, with countenances of maniacs and ghouls, are pulling forth the intestines and mouthing them...
...covering letter Father Walsh wrote: "To the Right Reverend and Reverend Clergy. . . . You will notice that . . . mention is made of a particularly blasphemous cartoon ... in mockery of the Sacrament of the Eucharist...
...waiting for the electric chair. The first act is an agonizing crescendo leading to an execution. The murderer is given a lavish meal which he cannot eat, cigarets which he is unable to finish. His temples are shaved for one electrical contact ; his trousers are slit for another. The sacrament is administered. He passes each of the other six cells in the Death House on his way to a green door. The other six of the doomed wait in silence until the lights go dim, indicating that the prison dynamo is working at its peak. In the next two acts...
Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes of Manhattan sailed to Italy on the Cosulich motor ship Saturnia. Next to his suite is a Roman Catholic chapel, the Saturnia and her sistership Vulcania, being the only ships pontifically authorized to carry the sacrament...
...quiet women dressed in white robes, wearing black hoods and capes, carrying rosaries, like strings of beads, with a pendant crucifix. They were nuns of the Dominican Sisterhood, located at Corpus Christi Monastery in Menlo Park, California. They had pledged themselves to the perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, to obedience, poverty and chastity. Never may they leave the cloister (except because of fire, leprosy, contagious maladies, or analogous circumstances...