Word: confessions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Roman Catholic Church urges its faithful to confess their sins to a priest at least once a year, and insists that they do so before receiving Communion if they have committed a mortal sin. In theory, confession should be a cleansing encounter between the believer and God, during which the priest, acting in God's name, forgives a penitent his sins and advises him on how to lead a more holy life. In crowded urban churches-or even outside them, as at the outdoor confessionals sometimes seen in such traditionally Catholic countries as Poland-confession is often a mechanical...
While the Republicans blushed, California Democrat James Gorman said: "I must confess that when the venerable gentleman from Virginia espouses a voting rights bill, my overly suspicious nature raises questions." House Speaker John W. McCormack mused that the Southerners had put the Republicans "in a very untenable position...
...back in Cincinnati. He had himself told Bliss of the raid, and Bliss had "professed satisfaction with my work." But "when the adverse publicity started to flow, the chairman weakened in his support of me, and it was apparent that I was to be sacrificed." Added Kelly: "I must confess that my short stay in politics in Washington has proved that a position with the Republican National Committee is more dangerous than that encountered in my time as a liaison pilot in World...
...confess before God and the world," the report said, "that we have been guilty of the sin of conformity to the world, that we have often followed the vain traditions of men instead of the mind of Christ, and that our silence and fear have all too frequently made us stumbling blocks instead of stepping-stones in the area of race relations. In a spirit of true repentance, we prayerfully rededicate ourselves to the Christian ministry of reconciliation between Negroes and whites...
...Confessions of the Innocent Sir: An untrue inference is contained in TIME'S [April 2] statement, "The fact that mdigents (60% of all criminal defendants) frequently confess out of fear, even though innocent, is among the chief reasons for the court decisions on the right to counsel and the inadmissibility of nonvoluntary confessions." It is a rare occurrence when an innocent person confesses to a crime that he did not commit, and because of the layers of niters built into our system, the production in court of such a false confession would be a rarity among rarities...