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...conceived as release from some or all of the ac cumulated punishment time in Purgatory; the church could draw on its "treasury of merit," an increment gathered from Christ and the saints. The plenary indulgence, canceling all temporal punishment in or out of Purgatory due for a forgiven sin, was deemed by St. Thomas Aquinas to be sufficient to enable a soul to soar straight to heaven...
...hacks could be forgiven for never having heard of Lochinvar or Childe Roland. But they should have known from his record that John Lindsay was no dilettante but an accomplished and courageous politician. He had been a superb trial attorney, so good that he had received glowing praise from Justice Felix Frankfurter for his presentation of a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. He had proved himself to be one of New York's alltime champion vote getters in his 17th Congressional District. He was one of the toughest, go-it-alone independents in Congress, a top House expert...
Throughout the state, where the attitude toward the Governor has been one of adulation, there was a sharp change. "I voted for our Governor" Mrs. Raymond A. Busier wrote the Montgomery Advertiser, "but if I can be forgiven, I'll never again. Wake up Alabamians, before you sell your birthright for a mess of pottage." State Representative Kenneth Ingram protested in the Birmingham News that he had previously considered Wallace "a champion of conservatism, but now I find that he is advocating what appears to me to be liberalization of our very own Alabama constitution...
...Paris in 1930 in a Russian emigré review, the tale seems direct enough at surface level. Smurov, a young Russian emigré in Berlin, anxiously searches among his acquaintances for the identity of which the Revolution stripped him. This is a recurrent Nabokovian theme; he has never forgiven the Soviets for appropriating his childhood. But Nabokov could not-and cannot-resist sending his skill off in any and all directions. A simple exercise in homesickness is made to bear many other burdens, and its surface conceals, or seems to conceal, hidden meanings. Among them is not the introduction...
...John, Jesus tells his Apostles, "Whose sins you shall forgive they are forgiven them"; the Epistle of St. James urges Christians, "Confess, therefore, your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be saved." In the early church, penitents commonly confessed their sins in public, but in 1215 the Fourth Lateran Council made regular private confession the norm for the church. The Reformation rejected Catholic belief that Penance was a Christ-instituted sacrament; some Anglicans and Lutherans practice private confession, but most Protestant churches have a confession made by the entire congregation, generally at the beginning...