Word: penitente
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Last week the Vatican issued a long set of new rules formalizing some of the experiments but sharply limiting others. For individual confessions, the rules encourage the use of a room set aside for the purpose, require that the priest greet the penitent warmly with a reminder of God'...
The document approves warmly of communal rites, which the Vatican seems to want to establish as the basic, most common form of the sacrament. But those congregational celebrations, the rules insist, must incorporate individual confession and individual absolution for each penitent-a somewhat cumbersome procedure. General absolution is in most...
FATHER JAMES H. Flye taught Agee as a young boy at St. Andrews in Swanee. Tennessee, and later was his traveling companion on a bicycle trip through France and England in the summer of 1925. "An Article of Faith", written by the new eighty-six year-old priest is a...
When the penitent and his dwarf woman ask to be married in the town church they discover that the priest is none other than the abandoned son. The son wants to kill his father for abandoning him, but agrees to wait until he has finished digging the tunnel.
The tunnel is finished in the fourth section, and the crippled come running out of their cave toward the town and are met by a barrage of rifle fire. When the penitent arrives they are all dead. The townspeople shoot him also but he refuses to die and picks up...