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...Catholic has been perplexed by indulgences, believing that they afford an easy means of forgiveness of sin or pardon for future sin. According to Catholic doctrine, an indulgence is the remission in whole or in part of temporal punishment (in Purgatory) for sins whose guilt has already been forgiven. It may be a plenary indulgence, granted only by the Pope, remitting all punishment; or a partial indulgence releasing the sinner from a certain number of days or years of it. This method of reckoning indulgences is based on the Early Christian custom of expiating sins with public-penance which often...
...with his wife, Elsa. During his matrimonial happiness, John had once been faithless in a moment of pity for an abused woman. The dramatic point lies in the question of whether his wife shall be told of the incident in the end of the novel and the sinner forgiven. The rational self calls such a solution sentimental and urges an ironic conclusion, the wife dead, the confession unuttered. The other woman, a friend of both, relates the story in disguise to form the wife; then Loving discusses this point with his wife in relation to the two possible endings...
...there with a bribe of lingerie, when suddenly all his fun is spoiled and his engagement ruined into the bargain. But Warren is not a man to be so easily defeated; he fairly drips with fine ideas, which unfortunately go askew until the very end when all is forgiven by all concerned; and then everyone trips merrily out to some delectable form of lechery and the play ends on a cheerful note...
...would be less flattered than embarrassed. Apparently with no intent of parodying his master's manner, Author Burnham has succeeded all too well. Though doubtless meant to hoist the standard higher, Wedding Song blows the gaff on the whole Spartan-boy-&-fox school of understatement. Kit has never forgiven his father, U. S. Tycoon Abbott, for his mother's death, for not accepting his own War bride until it was too late. His whole life is vowed to revenge. From Venice, where his sister Narcissa lives in anxious pomp with her noble Italian husband, Kit spins the cabled...
...together as it did last Saturday. Everything seemed to click, and the thought of Well's two passes early in the game kept the Eli secondaries in mortal terror all afternoon. The verdict of the stands with regard to the team, the coaches and Danny Wells was "All is forgiven" and critics paid high tribute to the eleven which has been the favorite object of censure this fall...