Word: sacrament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...former schoolmate, a priest, who found his face "cold as alabaster . . . Bubbling with wit and exceedingly kind, he seemed to belong only in slight degree to earth. But, alas, he was not thinking of heaven." Chopin told his friend, "I should not like to die without having received the sacrament, because I don't want to bring grief to my mother. But I cannot take it, because I don't understand it in your...
...eight years' imprisonment plus confiscation of his property and loss of civil rights for ten years. The charge: when called to give the last rites of the church to a woman apparently dying of pneumonia, Father Fajstl first asked if she were a Communist, then withheld the sacrament until she had sent her son to party headquarters to turn in her membership card. Instead of dying, the government said, the woman recovered and denounced the priest for thus applying the recent Vatican decree of excommunication (TIME, July...
...system imposed upon the people by the priests," he might gain valuable insight into the more important non-political motives of the Church. As it is, his disdain for the hierarchy blinds the balance of his insight so that he never separates the mystic from the mystigogue, or the sacrament from the sacrilege. The result is a book on an important topic which will contribute little but flame to any genuine controversy of abuses that may exist. Lawrence F. O'Dennell
Crichton's story tells of two boys taking their first Communion, who decide out of curiosity to steal and break the Communal Sacrament. According to a nun's superstition, Christ's blood will flow from the sacrament if it is desecrated. The title was drawn from the Bible...
...himself gave a dramatic account of the job before his scholar-priests. "One day in Santander," he said, "a Communist woman was sentenced to death. She had declared herself an atheist. On the eve of her execution a nun convinced her she should confess and partake of the Holy Sacrament. Yet later, as she stood before the firing squad, that same woman raised her clenched fist to the sky and cried out: 'Viva Rusia...