Word: confessor
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...theologian who established the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity in 1960 and labored unremittingly to advance ecumenism; of a bronchial infection; in Rome. Called to Rome from his native Germany in 1924, Bea became the Vatican's foremost Biblical scholar, served for 13 years as confessor to Pope Pius XII, was principal author of Pius' encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu, which encouraged previously forbidden scientific study of the Bible. As head of the Secretariat, he traveled to England, Greece, Switzerland and the U.S. to promote ecumenical communication. He campaigned fervently to persuade Vatican Council conservatives...
CARSON McCULLERS should have left her first novel untitled. Its story of a deaf-mute who becomes a confessor for an odd assortment of searching, lost human beings has in my opinion been generally overrated. Her book is good, but it hardly lives up to the promise of its haunting, haiku-like title -- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter...
...virtually dragooned into acting as Big Daddy to all the others. Does the divorcee fear an old lover's return? Speak to her, John. Does Willy, the Dachau victim, seem about to go under in private gloom? Have a word with Willy, John. But the role of father-confessor plus Mr. Fixit is really a trial to him. He is having troubles of his own as he is trying to dodge an old mistress to devote his repressed, puritan self to the torturing game he plays with Kate. Author Murdoch knows her lovers through and through, and can prove...
...junta insisted that it would retain the monarchy and appointed as temporary regent Lieut. General George Zoetakis, who was sworn in by Archbishop Leronymos, formerly the chaplain of the royal family and the King's personal confessor. Pictures of the King and Queen, which had been taken down from government offices in the first hours of the countercoup, were put back in their accustomed places. Orthodox priests were ordered to retain the passages about the King and royal family in their Sunday prayers...
Essential to 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...