Word: communion
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...organization, it is always the individual who discriminates. It is up to the individual to decide which organizations share their beliefs and are worthy of their membership. If none share their beliefs, then that individual may start his or her own group. Obviously, Julie Catalano was not in full communion with the beliefs of the Tufts Christian Fellowship. Why did she want to become the leader of an organization that she didn't agree with...
...Beauty is largely visual, but we are greatly mistaken if we think that its constituent parts can be seen; it is only incidentally a matter of the eyes. We have heard and we continue to learn that it exists most of all in the instant of communion...
This odd, mystical communion between husband and wife comes to seem an almost heritable trait in succeeding generations of this temporally extended family. When Avra, Yochanan and Esther's granddaughter and a practicing kleptomaniac, marries Shimon, who has come to Palestine from Russia, she tells him of her many past thefts and adds, truthfully, that she invariably returned the stolen goods, although not always to their rightful owners. Shimon is at first shocked and appalled and then fascinated. He asks her for more details, and she obliges, spinning stories about the places where the objects she stole originated. As they...
...chief, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, that will be sent to every Catholic bishop warning against the temptation to view other denominations as equals. "There exists a single Church of Christ, which subsists in the Catholic Church," writes Ratzinger. Churches that don't accept papal primacy are, he says, in "imperfect communion" with the church, and are "not Churches in the proper sense...
...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...