Word: sinse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Warsaw the Central Committee of the Polish Communist Party roasted Gomulka, Vice Premier and the party's secretary general, over a Moscow-kindled ideological fire. In party jargon, Gomulka was charged with four cardinal sins: 1) he lacked "understanding of the . . . leading role of the Russian Communist Party...
Gomulka held out for three days against the Central Committee. Then, unlike Tito, who had defied Moscow and been quarantined by the Cominform for it, he confessed his sins. To a congress of 800 party workers in Warsaw Gomulka said: "Comrades, tell all the party members I committed a number...
For his sins Gomulka was deprived of his job as party secretary general. Into the secretaryship Moscow put Poland's President Boleslaw Bierut, another underground graduate who had pretended since his emergence in 1945 that he was aloof from party influences.
Sentimental humanists (who do not believe in either saints or sinners) would say: Scobie was a "sinner," yes. But might not his sins have been purged by an earthly purgatory of suffering? And did he not try to repent the final sin of all? When the poison he had swallowed...
Therefore, writes Father White, material that the psychiatrist considers valuable may be rejected by the priest as self-infatuated garbage. "What a penitent is expected to confess is very clearly denned and restricted to the sins committed since his baptism or his previous confession. No such limitation can bind the...