Word: confessore
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...Bible. He retired to a friend's house in the country and set to work; it was to take ten years, at the average rate of 24 verses a day, and today it is an approved version. World War II provided some interruptions-especially when Knox became confessor to a group of evacuated teen-age girls billeted in the same house. But his sermons to them and other schoolgirls made two lucid little books for laymen on Catholic fundamentals: The Mass in Slow Motion and The Creed in Slow Motion...
...Great Tree. Out from Westminster Hall into the mild English summer day streamed the American lawyers, standing about New Palace Yard (called "new" to distinguish William Rufus' building from Edward the Confessor's old palace that once stood near by), excitedly discussing the speeches they had heard. Then they dispersed to a week of other meetings, other speeches, other trips to see sights that were variants upon the struggle for rule of law: the Tower of London, where Sir Thomas More, great lawyer and judge, was imprisoned by Henry VIII before his head was cut off, parboiled...
London's oldest parish church is All Hallows By the Tower, founded as a convent by Erkenwald, Bishop of London, about 675. Richard the Lionhearted built a chapel in its churchyard; Edward the Confessor gave it a statue of the Virgin. The Great Seal of England was once guarded from William the Conqueror on All Hallows' altar; erring Knights Templar were tried there for heresy in the 14th century, and the headless body of many a wrong-guessing notable was brought there from the nearby Tower of London for burial. In the Great Fire of 1666, Samuel Pepys...
...actual fact, admits one Macfadden editor, so many changes are made in rewrite that "the confessor would not recognize her own confession." Most editors are less intent on publishing fact than on inserting enough fiction to give their stories the ring of truth; often a single story is patched together from unrelated episodes in newspaper clips or readers' suggestions. The magazines rely heavily on free-lance contributors (top price: 5? a word), who have a free rein. Most writers and editors are women. Says True Confessions (circ. 1,339,922) Editor Florence Schetty: "Even confessions stories by men somehow...
...kiss that started the discussion was confessed to his priest by a 15-year-old Italian village boy. Mortal sin, said the priest. The anguished youth went to a second confessor, who told him he had committed only a venial one. Back went the boy to the first priest, who in turn wrote to La Palestra del Clero for guidance...