Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like and our present-day "enlightened" and "emancipated" notion. The Puritans saw evil everywhere, not excluding the minds of children. A child who obeyed his parents and spoke tactfully and courteously was a child whose behavior attested to his parents' Christian virtues. The parents had recognized sin in their boys and girls and fought it (relatively) and subdued it (mostly). By the same token, today's parents also strive hard to be found among the elect. That includes those who have read their Spock (in revolutionary days it was the philosopher John Locke who had all kinds...
...ordination advocates claim that the Church is guilty of the 'sin of sexism' and that women being barred from the priesthood is oppression. Most people would confess that all churches have grossly belittled women in the past, but the central issue remains that many also believe that it would be wrong before God to allow women to enter the priesthood. This is not based on the whims of human prejudice, but on very clear Scriptural statements. The New Testament is very clear on this. If one believes the Bible to be wholly true and authoritative, then the statements...
Jerry Brown, onetime Jesuit seminarian, believes that sin is original and selfish instincts natural, and he also suspects that America is experiencing a "counterreformation" - against the expansive governmental policies of past years. What makes these views especially striking, of course, is that Brown, 37, is the Democratic Governor of California. In his first year in office, he has curbed growth in his state's burgeoning governmental employment and spending. He has admonished Californians to lower their sights, prepare to make needed sacrifices instead of slaking the urge to consume, and accept unaccustomed notions of inherent limits instead of boundless...
...Roman Catholic Church, abortion is officially a grave sin. How to combat it effectively is a problem that has been troubling the nation's Catholic bishops ever since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its liberalized ruling on abortion early in 1973. While oft-shrill, heavily Catholic "right-to-life" committees waged political battles against abortion on all fronts, the bishops largely confined themselves to statements reaffirming church teachings and to limited lobbying in support of some kind of constitutional amendment that would nullify the court's action...
Trying to assign the blame in the New York bankruptcy is as much fun and as much use as deciding why the Roman Empire fell. Washington politicians tend to the sin-and-decadence theory, New Yorkers to the barbarian hypothesis. Let the historians decide. In the meantime--between, that is, now and December 1--city, state and federal officials should get busy making sure that the coming default does not set off financial panic or throw the country back into another recession. Everyone in New York, from Chase Manhattan to rookie sanitation men must be prepared to make some sacrifices...