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...wages of sin is death," says the Good Book, and "the gift of God is eternal life." But the wages of sin last week seemed to be the gift of Greeley. Priest-Author Andrew Greeley, 55, has long been a gadfly in the ointment of the Roman Catholic Church, and he hardly improved matters when he started writing novels (The Cardinal Sins, Thy Brother's Wife) luridly laced with most of the seven deadly ones. Now he has taken royalties from his books and pledged $1.25 million to establish a chair in Catholic studies at the University of Chicago...
...long Theatricals tradition of farce, humorous melodrama, and painful puns. It is set in the 1480s in a jungle where Amazon "women" live under the benevolent rule of Queen Foraday. Their manless solitude is interrupted by the arrival of the Conquistadores, led by Captain Walter Wallcarpeting and the priest Missionary Position. A battle of the sexes ensues, further complicated by the romance of the Queen's daughter, Kitty Litter, and the Captain's son. Jim Panzee, not to mention the songs, dances, and infamous chorus line. The requisite happy ending is accomplished with the help of Kitty's Auntie Emanem...
...sins, and the most solemn period in Judaism's ceremonial calendar is Yom Kippur, the annual Day of Atonement. In Catholic Christianity the sacrament reached its classic form by the 11th century; five centuries later the custom developed of holding confession in a booth, with penitent and priest speaking to each other through an opening in a partition. So strict is the privacy that a Catholic priest is forbidden even to reveal knowledge about crimes acquired under the confessional "seal...
Eastern Orthodoxy shares a similar tradition of sacramental confession before a priest. Anglicanism allows for, but does not require, private confession, in addition to the general confession and priestly pronouncement of absolution in liturgical rites. Although Martin Luther advocated private confession, Protestantism rapidly abandoned it, on the ground that the individual should confess sins directly to God in public worship or personal prayers, without the intervention of clergy...
...sins require absolution, and whether young children should confess before making their First Communion, as the Vatican desires, or a few years later when they may have a better understanding of the nature of sin. A majority of U.S. parishes now offer face-to-face confession with a priest as an alternative to the austere, anonymous meeting in a booth. The Vatican allows a communal rite of "general absolution," but only in extraordinary circumstances (for example, on battlefields or in mission areas that lack priests...