Word: confessionally
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Late in his career, Announcer Bill Stern made an endearing confession about his vocal ways as the Christopher Columbus of television sportscasting. Said he: "I had no idea when to keep my big, fat, flapping mouth shut." The insight dawned too late to be of much use to Stern, but...
The second half was an instant replay of the first. The Crimson started out hot, with point guard Nancy Boutilier and forward Marget Long sharing the spotlight as they took turns peppering the nets with outside jump shots. After six minutes it was 39-28 Harvard, and the frightened Crusaders...
This year is the 450th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession, an early and central creed of Lutheranism. Lutherans presented it as a statement of their doctrinal agreements and disagreements with Rome at an unsuccessful conference called by the Emperor Charles V, in the hope of reuniting Western Christendom.
The Pope's tour was a step forward, however. It followed a substantive break through. Earlier this year Lutheran and Catholic negotiators stated that despite differences on many practices, the content of the Augsburg Confession "in large measure . . . can be regarded as an expression of the common faith." The...
And the Pope urged Roman Catholics to go to confession, a practice he said has dropped sharply.