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In an editorial, the paper said that "[b]etween rampant organizational chaos, a stingy funeral budget, sound and fury from the Russian Orthodox Church and a growing list of prominent no-shows, this proposed 'act of national repentance and reconciliation' is shaping up as one lousy historical event."
Everybody carries the repentance story on the front page.
The main themes: the status of black women, family unity, repentance, and renewal.
During the summers, every city and small town had its revival tent where repentant sinners walked down the aisle, the sawdust trail , to the mourners' bench for prayer and sometimes emotional repentance.
The NYT lead concerning the Vatican points out that while the document issued Monday is described by the Church as "an act of repentance" for the failure of Roman Catholics to deter the mass killings in Europe during the Holocaust, it skirts the issue of the Vatican's institutional shortcomings during the era, primarily its official silence about the Nazis.