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...common Lord to heal the breach between us and to eliminate the scandal of our enmities, which threaten the common decencies and the good order of our country. We would be well advised to remember that the secularism which we pretend to abhor has at least one resource necessary for the health of a democratic community It knows how to make pragmatic compromises in order to achieve harmony between seemingly incompatible positions, and Christian charity would accomplish the same end if Christians were humble enough to achieve the necessary charity...
...What Sargent had in abundance was a capacity for flattering his sitters in paint, and naturally they flocked to him. He complained that "portrait painting is a pimp's profession," and late in life he swore off it. "No more paughtraits," he wrote triumphantly to a friend. "I abhor and abjure them and hope never to do another, especially of the Upper Classes...
...with a prostitute on her earnings, run a ring of brothels with her, trafficked in cocaine and blackmail, and is now, at 50, being blackmailed in turn by the prostitute Aline. After a childhood friend has given birth to his son, he marries her for her money though they abhor each other. When she dies, he squanders the fortune she has left him. Some land remains to his son, however, and Gradėre tries to salvage it from the predatory grasp of Symphorien Desbats, the asthmatic husband of Gradėre's wife's cousin. A business...
...issued a press statement warning against "a new form of idolatry" threatening the U.S. This, he said, is the "passionate, unreflective opposition to the Communist demon [which] is coming to be regarded as the one and only true expression of Americanism, and even of Christianity. It is proper to abhor Communism. Communism is an evil-let there be no mistake about that. But the spirit to which I refer, this new cult of negation, is something quite different...
Walsh argues free will to students who see evil dominant on earth or who abhor the concept of Hell, answering that God gave Man freedom, a freedom which has no meaning unless Man may choose the path of damnation as well as that of righteousness. Finally, though he pronounces Genesis allegory, he defends the "credentials" of the Scriptures...