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The truth about her was not so exciting. When she appeared before two congressional committees last week, she proved to be neither beautiful nor glamorous. She was plump and had a sharp nose and receding chin. She was not blonde; her hair was dark brown. But she was-or had...
Catholic Sacrament of confession is an ancient form of psychiatry (or that psychiatry is a secular corruption of confession) is common among Catholics, and shared by some non-Catholics. But the assumption is founded on ignorance: few Catholics know enough about psychiatry and few secularists enough about confession to see...
Both techniques, says Father White, are valid means of combating two forms of evil - one called sin and one called psychoneurosis. "But the evil with which each is concerned is essentially different, even mutually opposed. Sin is denned as an evil human act . . . malum culpae -'the evil men do...
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...
Her disease made her almost indifferent to her personal safety. When the guerrillas discovered a freshly sown minefield in the area where the 37th Division was scheduled to attack Manila, they picked Joey to get the information through. They taped the map to her back, told her to make her...