Word: confessionals
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Evil Vehicle. A conspiracy charge gives the Government a wide range of locations in which to present its case; it can bring its charges in any area where the conspiracy was either hatched or advanced. Most important of all, however, are the evidentiary advantages. Anything any conspirator said to further...
...your article "How Secret the Confessional?" [Dec. 22], you seem to sidestep the problem of individual responsibility, which is the true issue. You say that clerics defend the inviolability of confession because it provides "an emotional outlet for disturbed persons." Murder also provides such an outlet. Do the clerics who defend confession-Catholic and Protestant-truly believe that non-Catholics are more emotionally disturbed for not having the confessional? We can hope not. You quote a pastor as saying that we should be thankful "that we still have one place left in the world where a man can speak freely...
What William James called the "rich thicket of reality" is thoroughly explored in this book, which is subtitled "Thoughts During a Useless Time." Its author, Paul Goodman, is a novelist, poet, essayist, psychologist and social critic whose book Growing Up Absurd gave him guru status with a large segment of...
...Integrity. Since Bartsch admitted that he had told a priest of the first killing, letters have poured into German newspapers, protesting that had the confessor not remained silent, the three other boys might be alive today. Nonetheless, Catholic priests and Protestant ministers have overwhelmingly defended the priest and confessional secrecy. On purely practical grounds, they contend, the secret confession probably prevents far more crimes than it hides, by providing an emotional outlet for disturbed persons...
After 25 years of marriage, Tolstoy repaid her by publishing The Kreutzer Sonata, a combination novel of manners, tract against sexual relations, and confession. On the surface, there is nothing in The Kreutzer Sonata to link Tolstoy and Pozdnyshev, the protagonist. But Tolstoy did reveal many incidents of their private...