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...Archbishop of Canterbury stood up to open the Convocation of Canterbury one morning last week, and the aging bishops before him, who barely filled a quarter of Westminster Church House Assembly Hall, stared listlessly at the agenda-the revised catechism, an address on science and religion, "Is Suicide a Sin?" But with the Archbishop's first sentence came a fluttering of crimson surplices and white lawn sleeves. After 15 years in the see of St. Augustine, Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 73, announced his retirement...
Puritan New England regarded obesity as a flagrant symbol of intemperance, and thus a sin. Says Keys: "Maybe if the idea got around again that obesity is immoral, the fat man would start to think." Morals aside, the fat man has plenty to worry about-over and above the fact that no one any longer loves him. The simple mechanical strain of overweight, says New York's Dr. Norman Jolliffe, can overburden and damage the heart "for much the same reason that a Chevrolet engine in a Cadillac body would wear out sooner than if it were...
...Cardinal Sin. The Amin brothers' sin was not sedition but success. Like every other Cairo paper, Akhbar dutifully printed interminable Nasser speeches and daily photos of the dictator's dazzling grin. But it also continued to be the racy, mischievous paper that Cairo readers (except the puritanical Nasser) had learned to love. In Akhbar, Nasser's highly publicized visit to India last spring played second fiddle to a story with the banner head: MAD KILLER SHOT IN SUBURBS. Nasser was further irked by Akhbar's juicy coverage of Cairo society divorces. Against this formula, the official...
CAPTAIN CAT, by Robert Holles. An English novel, rich with lowest-class slang, in which two rebels at a military-cum-reform school discover that boyish idealism is no match for The System and the venom of original sin in which their regimented mates are steeped...
...Protestant theologians are critical of the formal rigidity of the natural law theory; neither they nor the Jews find the stock Biblical proof-text from St. Paul convincing.* Others, notably Karl Barth, reject the Thomist theory of analogy on which the natural law stands; in fallen man, they hold, sin has shattered God's image, and since the Garden of Eden he has had no direct knowledge of God's reason or his will without revelation. Many Protestants distrust the whole Scholastic tradition, which they feel keeps man from direct contact with God by interposing an artificial structure...