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Mary's Assumption in 1950, the Pope took no position on the question whether the Virgin was assumed bodily into Heaven after death or before it. Some, like Father John P. O'Connell. editor of the Catholic Family Bible, think that death is the result of original sin and that, since Mary was free from original sin (the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception), she was not subject to death. Another view, advanced by the Rev. William G. Most of Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, holds that Mary died of the love of God. "Such a love is like...
Cardinal Spellman's condemnation of the motion picture Baby Doll has intrigued and greatly puzzled me. If it is a sin to see this picture, it must be assumed the cardinal himself has not seen it. But how can the cardinal condemn Baby Doll if he has not even seen the film? Could it be the cardinal has committed a cardinal sin...
...stand on and make a speech." With a lisp caused by two widely separated front teeth, Billy Knowland would get up on his box and proclaim: "Wepwethentative government ith the way we do thingth in thith country." The inscription on his grammar-school graduation program read: "Appearance-politician. Besetting sin-politics." At twelve he spoke for the Harding-Coolidge ticket. He thrilled to the drama of his first national convention in 1924, returned to take over the chairmanship, from an adult who had fallen ill, of the finance committee of Alameda's Coolidge-Dawes Republican Club. Billy raised funds...
High in the Alban hills near Rome, a new war college held its first sessions last week. The war for which its officers will train is the war against atheism, materialism and sin. Its commanding general is Italy's burning-eyed, hothearted little Jesuit preacher, Father Riccardo Lombardi...
...three chances to kill Mauger-once in battle and twice in duels-but fumbles each opportunity. He kidnaps Aide but soon infects her with his own goading conscience, and. out of pity and a conviction of sin, she returns to her battered husband. Fulcun carries his passion about like a plague and involves all his kinsmen in his ruin...