Word: confessionalism
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For a time, it looked as if the Arellanos had gone over the line. But after offering confession and begging forgiveness in a secret meeting with the papal nuncio, they simply stepped up the violence. They recruited hardened gang members from San Diego, as well as the bored sons of...
The years have taken their toll on those who kept the secrets. When police began re-examining the case less than two years ago, they questioned a gang member who left a taped confession implicating fellow members before killing himself. Three other members suspected in the shooting have committed suicide...
--Many of you felt that Bob Kerrey's treatment at the hands of the news media was the ugliest aspect of the controversy surrounding his confession. "American journalism has hit an all-time low," wrote a Florida woman. "Reporters who hoped to 'hit it big' with this story only exhibited...
I have an announcement to make. I realize that it will probably make me very unpopular, especially at this particular juncture, what with "Pearl Harbor" out in theaters this weekend and everything. Heck, this little confession might even make me seem downright un-American. But I just can?t stay...
Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist who has interviewed numerous school shooters, says they tend to have in common "some degree of depression, considerable anger, access to weapons that they aren't ready to have, and a role model salient in their memory. So far," he told a TIME reporter, "it...