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...reform follows a drop-off over the past decade of 60% or more in individual confessions, once a weekly or monthly routine for the devout. Says Robert Burns, executive editor of U.S. Catholic magazine: "The church realized it had to do something-the situation was rapidly deteriorating." Among the causes: the waning of the once common belief that confession must always precede Communion, and the spread of more liberal concepts of sin. Another Catholic editor, Commonweal's John Deedy, believes the church is already "well down the road" toward elimination of individual confession. Whether those low-lit "reconciliation rooms...
Gaither said that although the cart would still be disabled this morning, The Globe would be delivered by Globe trucks to the drop-off points. He did not know whether he could make a similar arrangement for The Times...
...drop-off rate is a measure of the decline from preliminary anticipated enrollment calculated in the spring before the academic year to actual enrollment in early October, Bruce Coller, assistant dean of the College said yesterday...
...drop-off in enrollment has already reached 8 per cent, providing sufficient space both to eliminate House overcrowding and to admit the commuters to University housing, Whitlock said...
Collier said a drop-off rate of 6 per cent has been typical for the past 2 years...