Word: sacramentally
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...social psychologist, Father Alves is directing a project for training "social volunteers" to help the lonely aged adjust to modern society's pressures and to comfort those who are incurably ill. There is wide public misunderstanding, said Father Alves, of the full purpose of the Roman Catholic "sacrament of the sick." Long called "extreme unction," it is still too generally regarded as simply the last anointing before death. But in modern theology a broader and more ancient purpose has been re-emphasized. The sacrament is not only concerned with accommodation to death; it is a prayer...
...drug laws really abridge the defendants' religious freedom? Yes, found the court. "Peyotism" goes back to at least 1560; it is the central sacrament of a semi-Christian church whose members (estimated at anywhere from 30,000 to 250,000) believe that peyote puts partakers in direct contact with God. As the court put it: "To forbid the use of peyote is to remove the theological heart of Peyotism...
Sarum Ceremony. All this was legal in Catholic eyes because Father Jackson was the official witness of the sacrament. And there was no problem about using the Prayer Book form of marriage: it in fact derives from the Sarum rite used in the pre-Reformation English church...
...mixed marriages, and the fourth session of the Vatican Council will probably outline the norms to be allowed a pontifical commission of cardinals that is now revising canon law, last codified in 1918. The progressives argue that the marriage rules involve ecclesiastical rather than divine law, and that the sacrament is actually administered by the couple rather than the priest, who is merely an official witness. Thus there is no Catholic doctrinal bar against Catholics' marrying Protestants before non-Catholic clergy...
...major trend among Protestants is a denomination-crossing liturgical renewal that has restored much ceremony to Sunday services, and is elevating the sacrament toward equality with the preaching word. But to many churchgoers, the idea of candles, vestments and more frequent Communions still smacks of Romanism, and last week in Pittsburgh the nation's largest Lutheran church resolutely voted in favor of the low road in liturgy...