Word: satanic
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...hastened to point out that nowhere in the Mass are there specific prayers for Russia or for Stalin. What every Catholic priest recites are prayers "for the [Roman Catholic] Church in Russia" (prescribed by Pope Pius XI in 1934), including a petition that God may "thrust down to hell Satan and all wicked spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls...
Demoniac Saint. Antonio Conselheiro believed that the Roman Catholic Church was doing the will of Satan. His morality combined the absolute license of free love with chastity exaggerated "to the point where woman is looked upon with horror"- his followers accepted half of this, and practiced free love. Because his disciples renovated abandoned cemeteries, built new churches and restored old ones, the priests "good-naturedly tolerated the excesses of this demoniac saint who at least helped to increase their dwindled revenues." By 1877 Conselheiro was famous, feared, implacable, "a species of great man gone wrong," ascetic, thin, weary-looking, half...
...Baby Satan already had its motors running and was veiled in blue exhaust smoke. Five of us wormed our way through the hatches into the seats, adjusted our crash helmets and plugged in our earphones...
...Baby Satan lurched and grumbled on the way up to the fight. We left the hatches open to get our last breaths of hot fresh air. Passing the end of the airstrip, we entered an area which looked as if it had been hit by a hurricane...
...Time on My Hands, is gone (Helbros Watch Co. snapped it up), but the rest of the show is still there. There is a rendition of We've Got the Lord on Our Side ("The Devil's out there waitin'; it's either us or Satan. . . .") or a similar melody by the 26-inmate glee club. There are selections by a 22-piece orchestra, which sometimes tackles a Rachmaninoff prelude "in the style of the San Quentin Orchestra." There are vocals by prison songbirds; a short speech by smart, humane Warden Clinton Duffy; a few words...