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Carville, host of CNN's Crosssfire, faxed a letter to Lott's office Wednesday, both accepting the Senators apology and pledging not to criticize him further for comments made recently or for comments Lott had made in the past on the issue of race. 'If as you have claimed, your recent troubles have truly spurred you to seek redemption and find ways to improve race relations in this country, I applaud you,' Carville wrote.'Remember Senator, we all make errors. Committing errors is not a tradegy, but failing to learn from them is a grave one. You say you have learned. I believe...

St Martin was born in Lima, Peru on December 9, 1579. His father Don Juan de Porres was a Spanish knight; his mother was Anna Velasquez, a freed woman from Panama of African descent. They were not married and after the birth of Juana, a second child, Juan and Anna separated. For a time the father shamefully left the mother and children to fend for themselves. Despite the poverty of their home Martin, from an early age, showed exceptional generosity especially to those poorer then himself. One might say that he had a weakness for the poor, and often,...

Rabbi Benjamin Blech Forgive the terrorists? http://www.jewishworldreview.com | G-d, I need your guidance. I grieve for all the victims of September 11th. My heart is filled with pain, and with anger at the terrorists responsible for the horrible crimes committed on that day. But I know that you teach us to forgive those who sin. In the Bible you often tell us that you are a G-d who is slow to anger, merciful and forgiving. We are supposed to imitate you and adopt Your behavior as guidelines for our own personal conduct. Does that really mean that no matter how...

September 15, 2002Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday 41 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Reading II Gospel Reading ISir 27:30--28:9 Wrath and anger are hateful things,yet the sinner hugs them tight.The vengeful will suffer the LORD's vengeance,for he remembers their sins in detail.Forgive your neighbor's injustice;then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven.Could anyone nourish anger against anotherand expect healing from the LORD?Could anyone refuse mercy to another like himself,can he seek pardon for his own sins?If one who is but flesh cherishes wrath,who will forgive his sins?Remember your last days, set enmity aside;remember death and decay, and...

-- Posted by efic on 1:54 pm on Mar. 21, 2002 Subject: Forgiving Terrorists... THIS WAS TOO GOOD TO PASS UP!!! In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkopf as asked if he didn't think there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer was classic Schwartzkopf. He said: "I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting." AMEN…

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope John Paul, marking the anniversary of the attacks on U.S. cities, branded terrorism "ferocious inhumanity" but asked for prayers that God would show mercy and forgiveness for the attackers. The pope also urged the world to change in situations of injustice that spurred the desire for revenge. "We pray for the victims today, may they rest in peace, and may God show mercy and forgiveness for the authors of this horrible terror attack," he said in Polish, according to a translation provided by Vatican Radio. The pope was speaking in unscripted remarks in Polish during...

From Accept this Gift - Selections from A Course in MiraclesPracticing ForgivenessAsk not to be forgiven, for this has already been accomplished. Ask, rather, to learn how to forgive. Forgive the world, and you will understand that everything that God created cannot have an end, and nothing He did not create is real. In this one sentence is our course explained. What could you want forgiveness cannot give? Do you want peace? Forgiveness offers it. Do you want happiness, a quiet mind, a certainty of purpose, and a sense of worth and beauty that transcends the world? Do you want...

Jul. 25, 07:32 EDT Pope John Paul condemns Sept. 11 attacks 200,000 urged to 'discover the path of forgiveness and reconciliation' > CP Photo/Paul Chiasson Pope John Paul greets the crowd of thousands at Exhibition Place as he takes his seat on the centre podium July 25. CP PHOTO/Tom Hanson Pope John Paul waves to the crowd at the welcoming ceremony at Exhibition Place July 25. CP Photo/Tom Hanson The Popemobile, a converted Mercedes SUV, winds its way through World Youth Day pilgrims at Exhibition Place July 25. Pope John Paul condemned the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as "the...

Saint Maria GorettiMartyr of Purity by Dr. Natalie E. White In a time that has increasingly stressed education as an indispensable need, she knew neither how to read nor how to write; but she knew better than others how to live and how to die.Marie Cecilia Buehrle. Her life reads like a script for one of those gritty black and white peasant pictures - on the surface. An eleven year old Italian child, knowing nothing but hard labor, born of illiterate farm stock, herself unable to read or write, brutally stabbed to death resisting rape, her reputation attacked by...

MY LAWYER After living a "decent" life, my time on earth came to an end. The first thing I remember is sitting on a bench in the waiting room of what I thought to be a court house. The doors opened and I was instructed to come in and have a seat by the defense table. As I looked around I saw the "prosecutor." He was a villainous-looking gent who snarled as he stared at me. He definitely was the most evil person I have ever seen. I sat down and looked to my left and there sat my lawyer,...