Word: sin
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...What emerges is a face of such beauty that it suggests a saintly soul. Far from it. With beauty comes vindictiveness. Godfrey is bent on revenge for being spurned so long. He becomes a famous preacher who cries out to vast audiences: "Christ died for man to atone for sin. Can we do less for him?" In response, 332 people crucify themselves, and Godfrey himself is brought up short by a novitiate who plays Judith to his Holofernes...
...Catechism rejects a number of ideas that Catholics, Lutherans and Calvinists have traditionally affirmed. For instance, the orthodox formulation of original sin is discarded. Because of it, old Catholic catechisms taught that it was a mortal sin not to baptize infants. The new Catechism says that "there can be no fundamental objections" if parents let children decide on their own whether to seek baptism, as Baptists...
...story comes from the private diaries of William Ewart Gladstone, Queen Victoria's least favorite Prime Minister, who, in his avowed efforts to save prostitutes from sin, apparently indulged in unspecified sexual pleasures and then scourged himself in punishment. The other, released by the Public Records office, discloses an unsuccessful cover-up by the British Cabinet and Buckingham Palace, which tried to suppress the facts about the homosexual activities of Lord Arthur Somerset, equerry to the then Prince of Wales who in 1901 became King Edward...
...created a secret fund of corporate monies for the making of unlawful political contributions and other purposes." The SEC also charged that Gulfs balance sheets were understated because they failed to reflect the slush fund's value. Gulf signed a consent decree in which it agreed not to sin in the future. But Wild, who resigned last year after paying his fine, refused to sign the decree...
...university on the Upper West Side, Enderby is soon a man much bemused and beleaguered by moralists and behaviorists. In vain he declares that art-even execrable art-is neutral. Loathing the movie more than anyone, he sees it not as a cause but as a symptom of sin. "You ignore art as so much unnecessary garbage," he howls at his tormentors, "or you blame it for your own crimes." Even members of Enderby's creative writing class see him as a "misleading reactionary bastard." He has failed, it appears, to see merit in their "free verse and gutter...