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...real name is lost in antiquity, but he is known as St. Dismas. He is the patron saint of those condemned to death. Dismas was the "Good Thief" who was crucified on Calvary alongside Jesus, who said to him: "This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise." This poor saint's feast day (March 25) gains him no great devotion, for it coincides with the vastly more important feast of the Annunciation...
...confession, received absolution for his sins. Then attendants washed the Pope's face, hands and feet for their anointing in the last rite: extreme unction. The Monsignor Sacristan, Alfonso de Romanis, parish priest of the Vatican, sprinkled the still room and its grave company with holy water. "Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, 0 Lord, and I shall be cleansed...
...Thou shalt not' attitude only makes things worse," he said, "and encourages the reading of pornographic matter. Feeding kids straight stuff gives them something to think about. It's good of Smith to want to censor the lewd and lascivious. but that isn't what happens. A constructive story on motherhood is banned, while sadistic and sex magazines are still allowed to lie on the stands...
...bonds were issued." Diminished by one, when Hugo LaFayette Black replaced Willis Van Devanter, the Court's conservative minority dissented as sharply this week as it did in 1935. Said explosive Justice James Clark McReynolds for the minority: "If you will look at the Eighth Commandment [Thou shalt not steal] you will find it difficult to reconcile with it what has been done here today. ... In 1917 we had war. The Government . . . offered the best investment on earth, the promise to pay in gold coin. It continued to do this for ten years. Then the President and Congress denied...
...Thou shalt not kill is still the law of the land. If the doctors carried out the father's orders, it would be tantamount to condemning that unborn child to death. Such an operation might be considered in effect an autopsy, and I know there is a law which prohibits autopsies without the consent of relatives, in cases where there is no presumption or suspicion of crime. But that unborn child has legal rights...