Word: confessionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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As advertised, Slawomir Mrozek's "Drama from Gendarme Circles" (translated by Edmund Ordon and adapted by Mary Manning) is a satire on totalitarianism and an attack on imposed conformity. It begins when the last political prisoner in an unnamed nation signs his confession and reconciles himself to "the Infant and...
Spiritually, he saw the priesthood as a sacramental office rather than a hortatory one. Emotionally, the conversion of some of his closest friends and the lengthening roll of classmates dying in World War I stirred him deeply. He was struck when a fellow cleric was refused an army chaplaincy on...
On the solicitation of funds, he remarked, "I must state for the record the perhaps shameful confession that I have enjoyed every minute of fund raising."
Sunday after Sunday, in the whitewashed Greek Orthodox churches of the neighboring villages, priests delivered a warning-beware of those who would corrupt the church. But in tiny (pop. 220) Kyprianades, in the northern part of the sun-drenched Greek island of Corfu, Father John Costeletos, 45, kept silent. There...