Word: confession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Judgment. A practicing Muslim invokes the Almighty's mercy during the five prescribed daily prayer sessions. But for John Paul, penance and absolution have very precise meanings. Penance is one of the Catholic Church's seven sacraments. Baptized Catholics, before receiving Communion, are required to confess contritely all then- "grave sins" (for example, adultery) to a priest, and they are encouraged to confess lesser misdeeds. The priest absolves penitents on God's behalf. The priest also directs sinners to perform deeds of "penance" (hence the sacrament's name...
...must confess, the production has some of the concentrated impact of my original tale of Carmen. You know, the qualities that Nietzsche, just the other day, was saying you had drawn from me-"the logic in passion, the shortest line, the harsh necessity...
...drifters confess to committing hundreds of "serial murders...
Glenn has talked so little about issues, however, that many hero worshipers confess they do not know where he stands. Advisers concede he must spell out a policy if he is to convert adulation into votes, and are feverishly writing position papers. He has a skilled media man in David Sawyer, who plans a heavy schedule of TV spots after...
...murky passageway of the prison cellar. It moves with the speed, directness, precision and some of the impact of a bullet. More plausibly than any other book yet written, fiction or nonfiction, it gives the answer to one of history's great riddles: Why do Russians confess...