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...discussion. Pointing out that Jesus and the Apostles were Jews themselves, Bea argued that the deicide charge had led to pogroms and persecutions. His argument was strongly taken up by U.S. prelates. "I ask, venerable brothers," pleaded Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing, "whether we ought not to confess humbly before the world that Christians too frequently have not shown themselves as faithful to Christ in their relations with their Jewish brothers." Albert Cardinal Meyer of Chicago noted that even St. Thomas Aquinas had written that the Jews of Jesus' time were not formally guilty of deicide, since they...
Some painful, intimate truths are far easier to confess to a chance friend opportunely met than to the closest member of the family. A couple of drinks, a quiet dinner, brandy and cigars before the inn fire-and imperceptibly, from behind the urbanity and wit emerge the true facts of a marriage in shambles or of a mortal sickness. This is exactly the kind of book that Milanese Journalist Luigi Barzini has written to explain to the U.S. the delights and secret deficiencies of his countrymen's manners and morals...
...clergyman. The committee arbitrates any disagreements the parents could not work out themselves. The parents also appoint a separate "adult ally," another child specialist, with the job of winning the child's confidence and reporting to the committee on problems that the boy or girl might not confess to either mother or father...
Bobby now shows signs of taking it all philosophically. "I must confess I stand in awe of you," he told a meeting of Democratic congressional candidates, who were aware that Lyndon had barred all Cabinet-level officials from the vice-presidential nomination. "You are not members of the Cabinet, and you don't meet regularly with the Cabinet, and therefore you are eligible for Vice President." After he got the word from the President, added Bobby, "I decided to send a little note to Cabinet members in general, saying, 'I'm sorry I took so many nice...
...this was just too high church for the delegates, who resolved to stick with hygienically superior individual Communion glasses, changed all references to the minister as "celebrant" of Holy Communion to "officiant," and refused to encourage private confession. "I was taught that confession is to God," said Florida Layman Edgar Armstrong. "It isn't necessary to confess to anyone else to receive forgiveness if I am truly penitent...