Word: sin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...couldn't happen in America, but it did," snapped Editor E. S. James's lead editorial in the Baptist Standard (circ. 361,116), the nation's largest religious weekly. "Puerto Rico is American soil." In Puerto Rico, three Roman Catholic bishops had declared it a sin to vote for a man opposed by the church. The man was three-term Gover nor Luis Muñoz Marin, up for re-election on the same day the continental U.S., but not Puerto Rico, votes in a presidential election for Nixon or Kennedy (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...York's Francis Cardinal Spellman formally denied that it would be a sin to disregard the Puerto Rican bishops' injunction. Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, the Vatican's Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., declared that "the Catholic bishops of the United States have never taken any position similar to that taken by the bishops of Puerto Rico. I am confident, also, that no such action would ever be taken by the hierarchy in this country." (But Archbishop Vagnozzi got no support from the Vatican, which reiterated the right and the duty of bishops to advise voters at election time...
...have to make. At week's end came the second pastoral letter from Puerto Rico's implacable hiearchy. This time the bishops went out of their way to see that there was no mistaking their meaning: not only was a vote for Muñoz "inevitably a sin" but Puerto Rican Catholics were bluntly urged to vote for the church-sponsored Christian Action Party rather than for the opposition Independence or Republican Statehood Parties. To this the chancellor of the Ponce diocese, Msgr. Victor Nazario, added a warning. "Any Catholic who preaches or publicly supports the program...
...state-owned radio and TV unless they first submitted tape recordings of their songs. The regime has seized editions of various newspapers, ranging from the left-wing Catholic Témoignage Chrétien to the right-wing Ri-varol. Two cartoonists of the prickly, left-center Express-Siné (The French Cat) and Tim-were charged with "publicly insulting the army" in cartoons critical of the Algerian war. Oddly, the Moscow-financed Communist press, despite its noisy demands for peace in Algeria, remains untouched...
...Mortal-Sin Vote. The bishops were of no mind to let the issue die. In a second pastoral letter. James P. Davis of San Juan, Aponte Martinez of Lares and James E. McManus of Ponce reiterated and clarified their earlier warning against voting for Munoz. "To violate the law of God, which prohibits supporting a moral without God ... is a clear disobedience against God and evidently a sin...