Word: statueless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without checking the sign on the announcement board, it is now sometimes hard to tell whether a new church is Catholic or Protestant. Abandoning baroque altars and ornate candelabra, modern Catholic churches are all but statueless and feature bare, tablelike altars; at the same time, many Protestant ministers have come to recognize the validity of more ceremony in worship, and are celebrating Communion every Sunday with Eucharistic vestments, candles, and even incense. Thanks to changes inspired by the Second Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Mass in the vernacular features such venerable Protestant institutions as longer sermons, lay readers, and full...
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