Word: repenting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...forced" to do something on economic grounds, then to do that thing is economically sound. Being "forced" to fight for an economic advantage will make it to our advantage to fight-and whenever anyone speaks now of economic advantages he has unemployment in his mind. Louis XIV repented his policy of war for profit . . . and we will repent it on ours if we ever follow that policy...
Last week Archbishop Schrembs decreed that his interdict should stand indefinitely. But "innocent people of the parish, and those who repent of their crime," could go to neighboring churches, if they made certain acts of submission. Said the Archbishop: "The purpose of this decree is not revenge, since revenge is unknown to the Church of Christ; its purpose is to lead erring children . . . lovingly back to their Father's House...