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...Writer Roma Rudd Turkel in Information, a monthly publication of the Paulist Fathers. The church, she writes, "knows that it is impossible (not improbable but impossible) for a boy and a girl to be alone together in an intimate and exclusive companionship for any length of time without serious sin. And she has seen the tragic pattern shaping up Saturday night after Saturday night in parish churches across the country; these boys and girls start making bad confessions, then no confessions, followed by no sacraments, no Mass, finally no faith...
...practice of going steady has even "dipped into the grade schools to excite ten-and eleven-year-olds with its poison." If the situation continues, writes Author Turkel, the church may well pronounce going steady "a specific mortal sin [and] legislate on the matter as she has done on mixed marriages, and on other situations where the welfare of individual souls and family life is concerned...
...course of The Sin of Pat Muldoon, playwright John McLiam has the hero reach through the window of his Santa Clara, California, home to pluck an orange from a tree growing in the back yard. Somewhat later he informs the audience that redwoods grow along the town's main street. I am prepared to testify that in my ten years' residence in the San Francisco Bay Area I have not seen a single orange tree there, and that no redwoods stand in the center of Santa Clara. It would, though, be a pleasure to forgive Mr. McLiam his horticultural inaccuracies...
...ghoulish affair is inhabited by some appropriately unpleasant characters. The above mentioned hero, Pat Muldoon, is an impecunious Irish immigrant and tree surgeon whose sin consists of selling the last remaining bit of family property--perhaps symbolically, a back alley--and spending the money on a spree. Mr. Barton's performance in the role is a little incoherent, a fact which may be excused on the grounds that the cute little Irishisms and maunderings about the homeland which he is called upon to utter must have proved thoroughly repulsive to an actor of his stature and experience...
...fact that at one point, and for no clearly discernible reason, he breaks down in tears. I must admit an irreligious impulse to cheer at Pat's ultimately successful efforts to die without letting him administer the Last Sacraments of the Church. But that is the only thing The Sin of Pat Muldoon presents to cheer about...