Refusal to admit error

It was reported in 2000 that the Roman Catholic Church was divided over a report called The Church and the Faults of the Past which seeks forgiveness for past "sins", including the Crusades, witch-hunts of heretics and the Inquisition.

1. Anachronism is the worst sin for a historian.

1. Failure of government to apologize for errors

1. Technological programme errors
2. Religious torture
3. Lying
4. Human errors and miscalculations
5. Diplomatic errors

1. Personal failure
2. Fear of failure

1. Covering up mistakes
2. Apologizing
3. Acknowledging failure

1. Refusal
2. Mistake
3. Failure
4. Error
5. Overrunning-Shortcoming
6. Virtue-Vice
7. Truth-Error
8. Power-Impotence
9. Accomplishment-Nonaccomplishment
10. Communicativeness-Uncommunicativeness
11. Perfection-Imperfection
12. Expectation-Inexpectation
13. Skilfulness-Unskilfulness
14. Improvement-Impairment
15. Consent-Refusal
16. Superiority-Inferiority
17. Interpretability-Misinterpretability
18. Willingness-Unwillingness
19. Support-Opposition
20. Victory-Defeat