Word: sin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think the verdict was the only right one,"said Monagle. "I do think it was a waste oftaxpayers' money that it had gone that far. It wasreally a sin. Obviously the district attorney'soffice should take a look at their priorities...
...many modern Catholics, the question of a gay clergy inspires a big shrug. Why shouldn't homosexuals (and women) be priests? These days, they are among the few who want to be. The real issue, blithely dodged in this movie, is the Catholic sin of giving scandal. A priest is, after all, Christ's salesman and stand-in. He need not be infallible--since he is human and conceived in sin-but he'd damn well better be discreet. So it is one thing for old Matthew to keep a woman quietly in the rectory; it is another for young...
...written policy on student-faculty romance, had a typically equivocal response: the popular professor was stripped of a $25,000 teaching award that he had received in 1993--honoring him for, among other things, creating an "atmosphere of intimacy" in his enormous lecture courses--and told to go and sin no more. Any more complaints, the committee said, and Maas would lose...
...portrayal of Church and its influence on Benny, however, is laughably cliched. From the scolding sermon ("Will your body be a garden of Jesus or a vessel of sin?) to the stock confessional scene ("Father, I have had impure thoughts"), the Church seems to be just about as much of an obstacle to these girls' sexuality as Dear Abbey would be to their American contemporaries...
...children, the poor and minorities. Labor Secretary Robert Reich has identified $114 billion in Federal spending and subsidies that qualify as corporate welfare, yet Republicans focus on reducing entitlement spending. An analysis of tax breaks granted to major corporations provides further evidence that the Federal Government's worst sin is not bankrolling a welfare state for the poor. Rather, as M.I.T. Professor Noam Chomsky points out, the Federal Government maintains a "nanny state" for the rich--providing public subsidies to fund private profits throughout the economy, from the defense industry to agribusiness...