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Seminarian Stuart McLean of Yale Divinity School, who with Ed Bland of Princeton Theological Seminary worked in a steel plant, concluded that most of the men he met were far from understanding even such key words as "sin," "grace" and "redemption"-though he heard ministers glibly using the words to them as if they...
...Bible in common use in Liberia, Dr. Eugene A. Nida of the American Bible Society discovered a jolting fact. Instead of "Lead us not into temptation" in the Lord's Prayer, a misplaced inflection has long had Liberian Christians praying: "Do not catch us when we sin...
...missionary, the smell of dirt is agreeable. From this point of view, they themselves are the dirtiest swine of all. They have a horror of water. And those repulsive priests, when they question a child of seven in the confessional, it's they themselves who incite it to sin...
...Mortal Sin? Mexico's Archbishop Martinez indicated that the case of Sloan and Bill O'Dwyer was under study and might lead to a permanent separation or annulment. But Sloan was not content to wait. Last week it was disclosed that she had sued her husband in a Mexican civil court last February on the ground of mental cruelty. Said her petition: "The irascible character of my husband, which in time led to almost continual threats and insults, is the cause of all our trouble...
...Dwyer said in Mexico City that as a Catholic he could not recognize the civil action. Sloan said that she had hoped a church annulment would come through simultaneously with a civil divorce; she indicated that she had no intention of putting herself in a state of mortal sin by remarrying without one. On the advice of church authorities, she is planning to return to Mexico to be interrogated by an ecclesiastical council...