Word: confessionalism
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Towle's bombshell provoked outrage from two directions. To some, it was shocking that a Catholic priest would violate his calling by betraying a penitent. (Towle says Fornes' statement wasn't part of a formal religious confession.) To others, the shock was that a man of God kept silent while...
PUBLISHER: Mr. Clinton, we were not born yesterday. You have displayed a genius for the presidential imitation of Jimmy Swaggart, the sincerity-dripping prayer-breakfast public pseudo-confession, which is a variation on your brilliant "we've-had-trouble-in-our-marriage-and-leave-it-at-that" formula that got...
Vanzant does follow the Oprah recipe: a la carte spirituality, advice and above all, confession. It is an understatement to say that Vanzant does not shy away from talking about her difficult early life. And as Oprah has taught us, if not with quite so abject a life story, such...
Even Fornes' death doesn?t help Towle?s case with the Church. "The sacramental seal on confession extends beyond the grave," Beal says. "The only thing that could conceivably release the confessor from the sacramental seal - and this is somewhat disputed - would be if the penitent released the confessor. But...
In the end, of course, Father Towle didn?t obey either principle - religious or moral. He waited ten years, until after Fornes died, to come forward with his information. If he did receive confession from Fornes, Towles could be excommunicated. If he didn?t, the priest simply exposed his own...