Word: communion
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...attendance at the homes of Barbra Streisand and Warren Beatty - who would know of their own party's rich corruptions and fat-catteries? One would think that Clinton had invented this giant watermelon economy all by himself, and that the Los Angeles convention was a kind of multicultural communion of saints...
...Marisleysis, surrogate of the Drowned Madonna, back from the hospital where the stress has sent her, works the barricades now, distributing cups of cool drink to the people in the way that a priest distributes communion. And they take the cups from her hand as from a saint...
...John Paul's journey unfolded last week, he found moments of sublime communion, as in the grotto, or near the bank of the Jordan River, where the Pope reportedly confided in companions, "In my mind I see Jesus coming to the waters...not far from here to be baptized by John the Baptist. I see Jesus passing on his way to the Holy City where he would die and rise again; I see him opening the eyes of the blind man as he passes...
...letter "Vermont Decision Ignores Tradition," (Letters, Feb. 28) Melissa Moschella attempts to argue that heterosexual intercourse is somehow "distinct" from homosexual intercourse because only man and woman can experience "unique two-in-one-flesh communion," in which the spouses are "truly united." The fact that heterosexual sex is thus superior, she concludes, means that only opposite-sex couples should be allowed to marry, in order to encourage this superior and socially useful form...
...ends of marriage and that a committed marriage provides a stable and healthy environment in which to raise children, marriage is also good in itself as means of uniting the spouses. A homosexual relationship simply cannot be a marriage because the unique two-in-one-flesh communion that is the distinctive characteristic of marriage is only possible between partners of the opposite...