Word: penitente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For months Rodriguez Echavarria, a onetime jet pilot, had seemed the very model of a penitent military man. He even became something of a hero for helping break up an attempted comeback by the dead dictator's brothers last November. But the popularity soon waned, and before long Dominicans...
* A Roman Catholic may not take Holy Communion unless he is free of mortal sin, which can only be obtained by confession and absolution from a priest, and no confession is valid unless the penitent sincerely intends never to repeat his sin.
Then began Europe's long up-and-down battle between Pope and Emperor, with the Emperor usually ending up on top. Monarchs customarily appointed bishops in the Middle Ages; when Pope Gregory VII told Emperor Henry IV to stop doing it and was refused, he excommunicated Henry, and had...
Mortal Bishops. Within the confessional each priest is the ultimate human judge of sins not legally reserved to the bishop or Holy See (e.g., abortion, physical attack on the clergy, etc.). If a penitent is denied absolution by one priest, he may seek out another whose viewpoint is congenial to...
But within two days Macmillan's carefully wrought compromise shattered on the intransigent arrogance of Eric Louw. Calling a press conference (for white reporters only), Louw aggressively announced, "I have come to London neither as an accused nor as a penitent nor as a suppliant." and added that his...