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...stolen and smuggled out of Europe to the U.S., but neither they nor officials from La Fondazione Albizzini, which exhibits the artist's work, will speculate about suspects. The collection includes a 3-m-tall Sacco, a piece experts estimate could fetch over €1 million. "It's a sin," says Tiziano Sarteanesi, a La Fondazione Albizzini board member and a close friend of Burri's. Sarteanesi and other Albizzini officials went to collect the art in November 2003, shortly after the death of the artist's American wife, Minsa Craig Burri. "When we entered the house we found nothing...
...page satire in rhymed iambic pentameter about how hypocritical the high holidays were. Nonetheless, I chose to fast and attend services on Yom Kippur. The ritual made me think about the world’s hunger. It cleared my head. I was touched by the communal confession of sin (I couldn’t help comparisons to that other religion’s mode of confession) and the final prayers as the sun set. It was a beautiful observance...
...Catholic priests, the wine they use in Mass is subject, ironically, to a sin tax." ABRAHAM MITRA, Philippine legislator, objecting to the government's plan to tax the Roman Catholic Church on such commercial activities as selling rosary beads
...seems to me that Christianity is something of a big tent. There are a lot of different Christians, with different beliefs, even within their own respective sects. Where I believe that one does not choose to be gay, in my assessment being gay should no more be a sin than having brown eyes, being left-handed, or being six feet tall...
...fornication.” Yet there is much that points out the fact that we are all sinners—from St. Paul in Romans 3:10, “There is none righteous, no, not one”—and that judgment of our sins belongs to God, literally. Most famously there are Jesus’ words in John 8:7: “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone...