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Despite church disapproval, some Catholics have chosen to think of the new penitential prayers in the Mass as their "confession." Others, particularly on college campuses and in progressive parishes, have been taking part in unauthorized communal rites of penance, acknowledging their sins inwardly while a priest gives "general absolution"-a sort of blanket forgiveness-for the entire group. A variation sanctioned by the church-a combination of a communal celebration of the sacrament with brief individual confessions and absolution -has won wide acceptance in many U.S. parishes. As for more leisurely individual confessions that require some counseling, many penitents have...
...document approves warmly of communal rites, which the Vatican seems to want to establish as the basic, most common form of the sacrament. But those congregational celebrations, the rules insist, must incorporate individual confession and individual absolution for each penitent-a somewhat cumbersome procedure. General absolution is in most cases forbidden. To the disappointment of liberals, it will be largely confined to mission areas, where a single priest may have to deal with large crowds of penitents in limited time...
...meeting room upstairs at the Ollerton colliery welfare building in the Nottingham-Midlands coal field looked like a converted high school gymnasium. After an hour and a half downstairs of lager and bitter at a small communal bar, the miners filed into the room, noisy and nervous. Pea green was the color in vogue and woolen socks topped off waterlogged boots. A few sport jackets, an occasional tie, and two or three old brown frayed Stetsons dotted the crowd...
...shirts, which sounds as opulent as Jay Gatsby's. Malevil's tribe establishes a sort of feudal agrarian Communism. The band soon discovers that a scattering of other people near by have also survived the holocaust, among them some young women, who conveniently become Malevil's communal wives and future breeding stock. A band of loot ers begins devouring Malevil's newly sprouting wheat, the key to its survival, and so massacre is reinvented. There are no bleeding hearts after the Bomb - Comte is nature's true reactionary...
...have not read Hope Against Hope. Her new book, which has also been superbly translated by Max Hayward, is a sprawling but inhabitable annex to the first volume. It is as if in memoir form she has staked out the private living space that is so scarce in the communal world of the Soviet Union...