Do we come together to "confect" euchraist or do we come together to celebrate that which always and everywhere is? National Catholic Reporter

I've managed to confect vague sympathy, but can't help feeling the snub would be put into perspective if female athletes would only turn to their well-thumbed copies of classical comedy. Women should be happy they have failed the Sports Personality test | Marina Hyde

Polls appear daily; conjecture abounds continually; media confect a frenzy. US primaries promise little – and this year could deliver even less | Gary Younge

Pureeing their own research with published sources, Mr. Summers and Ms. Swan confect a circumstantial case involving protection money paid by members of the huge royal family to keep bin Laden's terrorism outside the kingdom's borders, intercession by Saudi cultural agents—likely spies—to help two of the hijackers in California, and stonewalling by Saudi intelligence after the attacks. A Decade After

Instead of having the studio confect costume jewelry for the film, DeMille ordered exact reproductions of ancient Egyptian jewelry that used real gold and precious stones. Empire of Dreams

What projects would they confect after rambling about the place where outbreaks of three infectious diseases for instance, the West Nile virus in 1999 were alleged to have started; where wild animals are killed on sight but a habitat for several bird species is nevertheless supported; and where the serial killer Hannibal Lecter would have enjoyed a brief respite from his incarceration but one which he sneeringly rejected? 101 Plum Islands

He could simply vacate the suspension and state the clerics have the faculties they need from him to confect the sacraments independent of any other authorization - such faculties to last until such time as a juridical structure can be agreed to. Fellay speaks: The talks begin in the autumn of 2009

The Novus Ordo is a valid mass because the words and rites that would confect the sacrament is present in the rite. URGENT The "Reform of the Reform" is in motion

However, the truth is that if we want a body of parliamentarians who will moderate the whole process as much in the cause of national sovereignty as in those such as family values, and as much in the cause of peace as in those such as social justice, then we are going to have to contrive and confect those parliamentarians for ourselves. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...