Word: sacraments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sacrament of another church was administered last week in the Church of England's Westminster Abbey. The occasion: the baptism, in Eastern Orthodox ceremony, of the three-month-old Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, son of young King-in-Exile Peter, heir of the Kara-George-vitches. Gold-braided George VI attended the ceremony as godfather. He thus fulfilled an obligation assumed in 1944 when he was koum (best man)* at the King's wedding to Princess Alexandra of Greece...
...City distributed 300,000 copies of a pamphlet containing the Rockefeller speech. In a pastoral letter published in the Episcopal weekly, The Living Church, he charged that the Rockefeller statements "declare that baptism is unnecessary to church membership and that the Lord's Supper, although termed 'a sacrament,' is a symbol whose beauty is not always expedient. . . . The New Testament, the Creed and the agelong practice of the church do not concur with Mr. Rockefeller's evaluation. . . . The church [should] withdraw from the Federal Council, if the Council maintains and does not repudiate its seeming approval...
...Belgium King Leopold surrendered, but Cardinal van Roey, heroic successor to heroic Cardinal Mercier, publicly forswore Catholic collaboration with "an oppressive regime" and forbade his priests to give the sacrament to anyone wearing the German uniform. Rather than let the Nazis prostitute the educational system, he closed the schools and universities. Throughout Europe, when the universities and the press and the writers and philosophers were silenced, "only the churches"-in the words of Albert Einstein-"stood squarely across the path of Hitler...
...finally he went to the hospital, for a "rest." But autumn came and he did not go home. Suddenly he was gravely ill. He prayed in his conscious moments, and one night the Most Rev. J. Francis A. Mclntyre, auxiliary bishop of New York, administered the last sacrament. He rallied; but four days later, Death, as it must to all men, came to Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...more essential elements. The service was crude . . . but our men appreciated it more than they would have in one of our larger cathedrals, because they had an active part in bringing it about. I probably stepped way out of line by taking it upon myself to conduct the holy sacrament, but I am sure that some of the men who participated, especially those who are no longer with us, and will never be able to take the sacrament again, will forgive me." Commented Rector Jones: "Fully admitting the irregularity, which to many will seem a weak word, of a layman...