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Hardly Any Sinner. Experiments along this line are already going on. In some Dutch parishes, a general confession is included in the Mass, although penitents are also expected to confess their sins privately to the priest in order to receive absolution. In Germany, some theologians feel that frequent confession is no longer necessary, on the theory that most Catholics hardly ever commit a sin serious enough to justify it. Catholics, they say, should be free to rely on their own consciences and receive Com munion without first making a confession. Normally, Catholic children today make their first confession and receive...
...soldiers (who must, however, go to confession if they survive). By the widespread use of general confession, Brother Philip concluded, the church would eliminate the disedifying, mechanistic approach that distorts present practice, and restore the sacrament of Penance to what it was intended to be-a joyful reconciliation of sinner with Christ...
Nobody rejoices over a repentant sinner more than Red China's Premier Chou En-lai-particularly if the sinner is a highly placed defector from the West. To prove it, Chou ordered party flacks to go all out last week on a reception for 74-year-old Li Tsung-jen, Nationalist China's acting President during the final days of the Communist conquest, and Peking's biggest prize so far in the East-West defection game...
...forever in a river of blood; the flatterers wallow in human excrement; the sowers of discord are split up the middle and stagger through eternity with their entrails hanging out. From time to time, with the brutality characteristic of his age, Dante personally assists their torment -he kicks one sinner in the face and sadistically rips out a fistful of his hair. More sympathetic episodes are artfully interspersed. In the second circle, for instance, Dante meets Paolo and Francesca and tells the touching story of their tragic love. Unhappily, the canticle concludes with a large and, to modern readers, faintly...
...glutton, a sinner, and will go to hell. Overcoming the evil temptation is my problem, my task, and my greatest test...