Word: confessional
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Nowhere is the division more spectacular than on the issue of birth control. In 1968 Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical Humanae vitae, explicitly telling Catholics they were forbidden to use artificial methods of contraception. In 1974 a study of American Catholics showed that fully 83% did not accept such...
...reconciliation, which was put into effect in most U.S. parishes this past Lenten season. It is now a longer process often involving face-to-face easy-chair conversation between penitent and priest (TIME, March 15), although those who prefer it can retain the anonymity of the old screened confessional. Says Lee Roach, 41, a Delta Air Lines pilot and usher at St. Jude's parish in Sandy Springs, Ga.: "We're encouraged to examine our motives. Now, when you go to confession, the priest may ask you, 'Do you believe you were sinning? Was it a turning...
Walker's version of Guy Clark's "Like a Coat from the Cold" is unpretentious but loving, the lyrical confession of a drifter who's finally found a woman worth settling down for.
The Chief Justice of the U.S. seemed to be breaking with some established judicial customs last week. In response to reporters' questions in St. Paul, Warren Burger said he currently saw "no change" in search-and-seizure regulations or the so-called Miranda confession protections for those arrested; such...
Bleak Dreams. Finally she crumbles. Like a coy adolescent, she tells Tomas she will sleep with him - but just sleep. She asks for pills to ensure her rest, but she cannot close her eyes. She starts talking to Tomas in bed about an incident where she was set upon by...