Word: penitente
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There are plenty of reasons to suspect that al-Qaeda keeps men like Padilla and Reid at arm's length: Ex-convicts from Western prisons are inherently unreliable as recruits, not only because of their dubious past (Bin Laden's men tend to be repressed puritans rather than penitent sinners...
Anxieties that Microsoft may not be in a penitent frame of mind emerged last month when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer insisted at a press conference in Brazil that Microsoft had plenty of competition in the software business. Seeming to ignore the findings of a federal district court and a unanimous...
Towle's bombshell provoked outrage from two directions. To some, it was shocking that a Catholic priest would violate his calling by betraying a penitent. (Towle says Fornes' statement wasn't part of a formal religious confession.) To others, the shock was that a man of God kept silent while...
Even Fornes' death doesn?t help Towle?s case with the Church. "The sacramental seal on confession extends beyond the grave," Beal says. "The only thing that could conceivably release the confessor from the sacramental seal - and this is somewhat disputed - would be if the penitent released the confessor. But...
Even after Friday, many legal experts were still shocked that the court took the state case to begin with. They contend that the Justices will simply decide not to rule, availing themselves of an option used several times each term: dismissing the case as "improvidently granted," a phrase at once...