Word: confessore
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Would a Catholic statesman be unduly influenced by his confessor? "The confessor's service would be exclusively private, moral and religious. He has no competence in political matters, which belong not to the order of morality and piety but to the order...
...fist during gusts of paternal rage. His sons are sulky, his daughters mute and brittle. His pious, hysterical wife chills the prince's ardors by making the sign of the cross in bed. The lusty prince comforts himself with a peasant mistress in Palermo and scandalizes his docile confessor-in-residence by forcing the poor priest to come along for the nighttime carriage ride...
...probably an oversight that the name of Joe Liss was omitted from your review of the TV show The Margaret Bourke-White Story [Jan. 11]. But it was a huge oversight: Joe Liss wrote the script. In addition, he served as everybody's Father Confessor-to the cast, the director, to Maggie Bourke-White...
...other M.P.s in the Commonwealth -not in India or Ghana or far-off Tonga -would have put up so long with so many hallowed inconveniences. The Houses of Parliament, which grew out of Edward the Confessor's Palace of Westminster, sprawl over eight acres of Gothic mazes, including 1,100 rooms, eleven quadrangles and 100 staircases. But aside from Ministers and the Leader of the Opposition, not one of the 630 M.P.s has an office all his own-or even rates a permanent desk...
...REVEREND AUGUSTIN BEA, 78, a German-born Jesuit scholar and one of the few men to whom a Pope has knelt; for more than 20 years he was the confessor of the late Pope Pius XII. Pope Pius wanted to make him a cardinal in 1946, but Jesuit General Janssens urged the Pope not to, because some Vatican veterans felt that Jesuits had been overly favored (Pius XI had created two Jesuit cardinals, had turned over to the Jesuits both the Vatican radio and the observatory at Castel Gandolfo; Pius XII had two Jesuit private secretaries...