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...Harvard, playing a slowdown game which emphasized ball handling, moved to a 4-1 lead at the end of the first half. However, late in the fourth quarter captain Steve Renard fouled out and Cornell promptly responded with a goal to tie the game...
...Smashups. Abbé Renard seriously raises the question of whether the devout Christian should perhaps renounce entirely such a diabolical tool. His answer is no-first, because such a prospect would be practically impossible; second, because sensible driving is a pleasurable good (Renard, 34, a high school chaplain in the northern French village of Bethune, likes to drive himself). The only solution to the ethical problem of the automobile, he affirms, is for Christians to cease reverting to barbarianism the moment they climb behind the wheel...
...becomes guilty in a certain manner of premeditated homicide." The author even invokes the moral logic of Matthew 5: 28-"Everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart"-as making traffic violations sinful even if no smashup results. For example, contends Renard, "the motorist who gets ready to pass another without having verified whether he can do so without danger, and who does not do so because he sees a policeman at the last minute, has certainly committed a moral fault...
Those in Peril. Father Renard suggests that the more serious excesses of the mechanized libido be added to Catholicism's list of confessional sins. Among them: speeding, passing without sufficient visibility, driving while intoxicated. In sum, concludes Renard, the Christian must remember that operating an automobile is a human activity that must be "in harmony with our vocation as a spiritual being." To drive home his point, he quotes an auto-age version of the Sermon on the Mount...
...forget," warns Abbé Renard, "that you may be a Pharisee yourself...