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...service wound to a close around noon, families swarmed across the red carpets to receive communion from white-robed priests. One cleric later donned a Santa mask and hat to pass out toy trucks and pink purses to a crowd of screaming children...
...other with a "sign of peace." Worshippers then exchange handshakes, or sometimes a hug or kiss. In 2007, writing about the exchanging of the peace, Benedict called for "greater restraint in this gesture which can become exaggerated and cause a certain distraction in the assembly before the reception of Communion." It may now be moved earlier in the service. Cardinal Francis Arinze, head of the Vatican's liturgical office, said last month that the affectionate gesture is often misunderstood. "It is thought to be a chance to shake hands with friends. Instead it is a way to tell those nearby...
Sophomore Bryce Donald, 19, admitted that even though he's a Methodist--and therefore forbidden by the Catholic Church to take Communion--he broke bread with the monks. He suggested that the church ought to find a way to include all denominations in the rite: "Like a 'Don't ask, don't tell' kind of thing, you know...
...students riffed on transubstantiation, the historical roots of incense and why it's not O.K. to pour Communion wine down the drain ("You're not going to flush Jesus," noted Rhonda VanDyke Colby); other weeks, the conversation runs the gamut from politics to premarital sex. "The first task is deconstructing what people think they know," she says. "A rigorous faith is going to serve them well. A rigid one is going to break when the first strong wind comes along." Several past participants have joined new churches; others say they've come to a deeper understanding of God. In some...
Even before the election, Democrats were warned not to risk becoming the "party of death," according to former St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke. It was Burke who famously pledged in 2004 to deny communion to the pro-choice Catholic presidential candidate John Kerry. The archbishop has since been promoted to Rome as head of the Holy See's equivalent of a Supreme Court. Meanwhile, in response to a question last week on Obama's pledge to reverse Washington's policy on stem-cell research, Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, who heads the Vatican office for health, made it clear that...