Word: penitente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Extra Cot. For the poor and pious Singer family, home stood at the head of a stinking, garbage-strewn Warsaw slum stairway. There Isaac Bashevis' red-bearded rabbi father (who chastely refused to look a woman in the face and could not, insists Author Singer, recognize his own wife...
At the fourth session of the Second Vatican Council, a number of bishops and theologians suggested that it was high time to reform or even abolish the church's ancient system of indulgences. For performing certain pious acts, such as visiting churches or reciting prayers, penitent Catholics can get...
After that, Woodward bounced from paper to paper; but in 1959, after Jock Whitney bought the Trib, he was invited back. He was not exactly penitent. His first column began: "As I was saying when I was so rudely interrupted eleven years ago . . ." When someone asked if he had any...
From the Treasury. Indulgences first appeared in the 11th century. In those days, the time to be served in penance for sin was often so long that it stretched beyond the penitent's life expectancy, and the indulgence granted for some special act of piety enabled him to cut...
There was also something of the penitent in Nasser as he turned from piety to politics and the humiliating purpose of his visit to Saudi Arabia. He had arrived in Jedda harbor aboard his presidential yacht Hurriah (Freedom) to negotiate with King Feisal a way out of the stalemated three...