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...line creeping across the page. Beckett's writing cultivates its own present tense, and struggles against the complications of time trying to break out of it. Time for Beckett is a kind of cancer on the whole body of existence, or else the sign of the original sin, birth. Only death can absolve that sin, and only the absence of plot can avoid the lie of a conclusive ending, happy unhappy or tragic. Beckett tries to be writing always in the middle, as in the midst of the almost endless sentences of Malone Dies toned, says Alvarez, in a "breathless...
...haven't been to confession for a year and a half, purely because I no longer believe in it. The idea that the Vatican disapproves of waiting for the sacrament of penance till a child is nine or ten burns me up. I know the definition of sin; yet I have no sense of sin. I ask God for forgiveness at least once a week for all my sins, consciously or unconsciously committed. When I used to go to confession, most of the sins were half made up. so what good was confession to me anyway...
...would seem that, in all cases, one who can understand and assent to this would have the intellect to understand simple sin. It would not be unreasonable, there fore, that he should go to confession before Holy Communion...
Wright's opponents concede-indeed insist-that confession must never be denied to a child who is ready for it. But they also maintain that a child cannot be required to receive the sacrament unless he is conscious of serious sin. Jesuit Francis Buckley of the University of San Francisco points out that canon law itself defines the age of reason differently for the reception of the Eucharist and penance...
...Vatican will soon amend a canon law that forbids Catholic funeral services -or even burial in consecrated ground -to "public sinners," a category that has often included Catholics in "irregular" marriages. The new law will allow religious funerals for those who, "although finding themselves in a manifest situation of sin, have retained their attachment to the church and have shown some sign of penitence." Pastors must avoid "public scandal," however, and can do so by explaining the "meaning of Christian funerals, in which may be seen a recourse to the infinite mercy of God." Thus, while irregularly remarried Catholics cannot...