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...Citizens Council. Although hundreds of Roman Catholics are technically excommunicated each year for such sins as marrying before a non-Catholic minister or joining the Masons, the penalty is seldom imposed these days upon specific, publicly named individuals unless the offense is of the stature of heresy. Until they confess their error, the three may not participate in the sacraments or in public worship, although they may enter churches and share in private prayers...
...fulfilling his obligation, the President is free to pick his confessor (most Catholics confess to whatever priest happens to be avail able) and to switch to another if he does not find him satisfactory. The Pope usually announces the identity of his own confessor, who is currently an old friend of his from Venice, Msgr. Alfredo Cavagna. But this procedure would obviously be impractical for the President, since it would focus embarrassing publicity on his confessor, attract undue attention to the President's private religious life...
...able to love, especially as he must accept the taboo which prevents his declaring and consummating his passion for his half-sister Antonia. He harbors a just hatred for the police; while admitting his wrongdoings, he has suffered brutal torture at their hands, when they tried to make him confess to crimes he didn't commit...
...have, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic'" exam-period editorial, "Beating the System," you reprinted on Monday; I almost suspect this socalled "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--The Bad Guys--than one of You. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last eleven years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...
...EASY TO CONFESS A MISTAKE OR TO SAY THAT ONE IS WRONG, BUT THIS NEWSPAPER FRANKLY SAYS THAT WE HAVE WASTED ELEVEN YEARS OF EFFORT ON BEHALF OF GOVERNOR POWELL. FOR A BRILLIANT MIND, A GOLDEN TONGUE OR A GREAT AMBITION AVAILS A MAN NOTHING, AND NEITHER SERVES THE NATION NOR THE STATE, IF IT IS NOT WEDDED TO GREATNESS OF CHARACTER AND HUMILITY OF SPIRIT. AGAIN WE QUOTE FROM ST. MATTHEW: 'WHAT DOTH IT PROFIT A MAN IF HE SHALL GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD, AND LOSE HIS SOUL...