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...punishing those who are guilty, and our juries make decisions based on justice, not color. Canada's judicial system would never copy America's madness. White, black, green, purple or red, it doesn't matter what color you are; if you are guilty, you will be convicted. ROSE PAPINI Toronto...
...notion that all human history began at one's own birth, a common delusion, remains extraordinarily strong, even in an electronic and allegedly literate civilization capable of reproducing the prenatal past at the touch of a button or the cracking of a book. As the Italian writer Giovanni Papini wrote about his generation of World War I, "For the 20-year-old man, every old man is the enemy; every idea is suspect; every great man is there to be put on trial; past history seems a long night broken only by lamps, a gray and impatient waiting...
Died. Giovanni Papini, 75, brilliant Italian philosopher (A Finished Man) and biographer (Dante Vivo, Michelangelo), author of the bestselling Life of Christ (1921), a celebrated but intensely personal act of repentance by which he tried to atone for his early, noisy atheism; after long illness; in Florence, Italy. A revolutionary turned ascetic, near-blind Author Papini dallied with the Devil nearly all his life ("My relations with the Devil are very ancient ... It seems to me important that men should know him intimately"), made emptiness of the soul his province with his bleak rendering (1931) of Gog ("Is not bread...
Such offbeat opinions from an ordinary author would not be noticed in Vatican circles, at least for years, but Papini's eminence and identification with the Church were enough to draw down upon his book some sharp looks and wry faces. "Shocking and silly," said a Vatican spokesman. "We know little about Hell, but the little we know is precise because it was the Lord himself who told us. First, Hell exists. Second, there is 'unquenchable fire' (Mark 9: 42). Third, it is 'everlasting punishment' (Matthew...
...year-old Author Papini only sits and smiles from the great velvet armchair in his little villa in Florence where he spends his days, partially paralyzed and all but blind. "My relations with the Devil," he says, "are very ancient. They go back at least 50 years . . . The Devil, who plays an important part in the life of men, is unknown. It seems to me important that men should know him intimately." To the suggestion that he is in grievous error and may be ordered to withdraw the book, he points out that he is not engaged in defining doctrine...