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Pope John Paul II's generalized apology for the wrongs committed by Roman Catholics over the centuries (implicitly, the Crusades, the Inquisition and a terrible inaction and silence in the face of the Holocaust) came during a Mass of Pardon at St. Peter's Basilica that served as a penitential prelude to his visit this week to Israel. The global jury is still deliberating on what to make of the apology...
...frank acknowledgment of past sins is a remarkable thing. But the Vatican is also being careful to make clear that this isn't simply a spectacular act of self-flagellation before hostile outsiders; it's about the church's need to express regret and ask for God's pardon rather than to satisfy outsiders...
West did not respond to more than half a dozen requests for an interview this week and last--though an assistant begged his pardon, noting that his schedule has been rather intense of late. (West has been on a nationwide book tour and is recovering from an operation...
...world will make us realize that we've "already made it." This statement is disturbing. There's not a thing in Fahrenthold's column about striving for social justice or collaborating with and empowering communities. What there is is a sorry excuse for community service aimed at letting us pardon our apathy and making us feel like decent people when...
...Gordimer herself begs pardon, in this collection's first essay: nothing I write in such factual pieces will be as true as my fiction. What is appropriately important to her is emotional truth, words that somehow resonate inside the reader. Hemingway used to assure himself that if he could write one true sentence, he was on the right track: it is this kind of truth that is meaningful to the writer of fiction, truth to the spirit. The problem is, this is also the kind of truth that needs to be important to the writer of the kind of nonfiction...