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...There is guilt, and often there is a lot of guilt. Many women feel they are committing a sin, some women even feel they are committing a murder, but there isn't a sense of loss; there isn't the sense that the fetus is a person," she said...
...said New Testament writers distinguished between "flesh and spirit." While they do make this distinction, I intended to contrast flesh and body--an important if complex distinction. St. Paul speaks of the Resurrection of the body, not the Resurrection of the flesh, which for him was the seat of sin. He describes the Resurrection of the body as a "spiritual body" rather than a physical body (I Corinthians 15:44). In the last analysis, I am willing to remain agnostic about the precise form that Jesus' Resurrection took, as I implied to your interviewer. That the disciples and Paul recognized...
...system can afford. Accordingly we shrug and go on with our lives, accepting the risk. But why continue to spend vast sums on absurd military projects when the same funds could protect us from a real threat? America's military planners are not just wasting money (no small sin) but are also guilty of outright mismanagement and violation of the public trust...
...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...