Word: mortall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kissing a mortal sin for the unmarried? Worried lovers may relax; it is only venial,* said Rome's clerical monthly, La Palestra del Clero, last week...
...kiss that started the discussion was confessed to his priest by a 15-year-old Italian village boy. Mortal sin, said the priest. The anguished youth went to a second confessor, who told him he had committed only a venial one. Back went the boy to the first priest, who in turn wrote to La Palestra del Clero for guidance...
There are two fundamental church documents on kissing, answered the journal's theological advisers: one by the Council of Vienne (1311-12), one by Pope Alexander VII, who reigned from 1655 to 1667. Both agree that if two unwed people kiss with intent to fornicate, they commit mortal sin, whether or not fornication follows. But if there is no such intention, if the kiss is only "a carnal delight limited to the act of kissing . . . if further consequences are neither indulged in nor thought of, the sin is only a venial...
...cotton hamlet of Coyolito, near El Salvador's Pacific coast, last week's big soccer match promised special excitement. Aside from their sporting rivalry, Captain Jesus Rivera of the local sport club and Ricardo Ayala, captain of a team of workmen from the nearby railroad, were mortal enemies in private life. When they trotted onto the field, both were wearing unusual football equipment: long-barreled pistols...
...thought I was a wonderful guy. I haven't been in the Stork in seven or eight weeks. I may go back, but, of course, I might be told to get out. I feel like an outcast." The New York Post, one of Winchell's many mortal enemies, gleefully reported that vindictive Host Billingsley had hauled off the wall a heroic portrait of Pariah Winchell. A couple of days later, however, vacationing Winchell hinted to his devoted readers: "WW's photo is back on the Stork Club foyer wall. (Tha-anks a large Lump!)." At week...