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James David ("Cowboy") Autry, 29, spent much of last Tuesday talking calmly with a Presbyterian minister and a Roman Catholic priest at the Huntsville, Texas, prison known as The Walls. At 6:30 p.m. he was served a final meal; he had chosen an unusually mundane one of hamburger with mustard, French fries, iced tea, water, and nothing else. His court-appointed attorney, Charles Carver, arrived, and they talked of his legal prospects. But both knew there was little hope. The day before, the U.S. Supreme Court had turned down his request for a stay. The time for his execution...
...emperor possessed a newly invented clock, which his people knew about, though no one owned a clock but he. When the emperor died, the imperial clock was allowed to fall apart, and everyone forgot that such a device had ever existed. Five hundred years later, Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit priest, arrived in Asia bearing a new Italian invention called a clock. The Chinese marveled at the thing...
Prisoners Sacco and Vanzetti refused last rites from the prison priest. They would die as they had lived, they said. Faith in a communistic order of mankind was enough for them...
...dark blue business suit. John and Caroline, each carrying a single tall white candle, flanked them. As Archimandrite Polykarpos Athanassion intoned the solemn Greek of the nuptial liturgy, Jackie and Ari exchanged rings and wreaths of lemon blossoms, and drank wine from a single chalice. Then the priest led them round a table three times in the ritual dance of Isaiah. Traditionally in the dance, one of the newlyweds steps on his (or her) partner's foot to signify who will command in the marriage. None of the 25 guests admitted seeing such one-foot-upmanship...
...central tenet of Christianity that sinful humans must be reconciled ("justified") with a righteous God to be saved. In traditional Catholic doctrine, the reception of the sacraments and the performance of good works can assist the process of salvation. Martin Luther, the German priest who broke with Rome and initiated the Reformation when he nailed his theses to a church door in Wittenberg, argued that people were saved by God's grace through faith alone. He cited St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans 5: 1: "Since we are justified by faith, we have peace with...