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...America (Catholic weekly) that he has never been told by any priest or informed Catholic that he must approve sending an ambassador to the Vatican. And what kind of "sex" is it that he feels American Catholics "condemn continuously?" If he feels there is prolonged concentration on that one sin, possibly it is the only one he is interested in reading or hearing about ... I suggest Mr. Sugrue enroll in a course of elementary catechism and get off Paul Blanshard's knee...
...sermon reported in Washington newspapers, Dr. Davies expressed Unitarian disapproval of Billy Graham's oldtime religion. Said he: "Heaven and hell, the description of God, the provision of a supernatural salvation-all these, at best, are mere assertions." He warned his congregation that too much talk of sin is apt to stir up several varieties of "guilt feelings," with lamentable Freudian results...
...Sugrue believes it has become less & less Catholic. American Catholics seem to him "overly concerned with money and sex, asking continually for one and condemning continuously the other. Love of money-even money for the erection of cathedrals-is the root of all evil, and prolonged concentration on one sin, particularly the old scapegoat sin of lust, is normally an indication that other sins are being covered...
...sin only went outdoors and underground. The same girls, reinforced in numbers, nightly patrolled the Champs Elysees and Place Pigalle and swarmed through the nightclubs. With no police regulation save for sporadic boulevard roundups, and no medical inspection, the venereal disease rate skyrocketed...
Once upon a time, many good people considered that reading novels was a sin comparable to sloth. When good novelists, with the help of critics and changing times, made the habit respectable, fiction began to outsell nonfiction. During the past few years, the novel has lost ground so rapidly that 1951 may be put down in literary histories as the year of the great debate: What is the novel's future-if any? It is not entirely an academic question. Publishers are shying away from novels, and for a good publishers' reason: people are not rushing...