Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attitude in my parish," says Father James Czachowski, 46, of St. Ignatius Church, "is that Watergate is so far removed, we can't do anything about it. Pope Pius XII said, The greatest sin is that we do not recognize sin.' Watergate is so big that we don't recognize...
...Gerard Damiano, the man responsible for pornography's biggest-gross film, Deep Throat. Having titillated curious audiences and outraged the courts with his previous effort, Damiano has now decided to teach a moral lesson, a touching presumption. What his sermonette comes down to is that the wages of sin are sex, a lesson that he preaches with cloying sobriety and lengthy illustration. Spevlin employs all manner of props and partners (including a rather amiable snake) to slake her desires, but she pays for it all in the end. She is imprisoned in a windowless room (Sartre will surely...
...gives him a chance to project the kind of dead-eyed savagery he has nearly patented as his own. He has the proper cunning and just the right kind of careful menace and restrained violence. He is not like a Graham Greene operative, haunted by guilt, shrouded in original sin. John Le Carre's world of moral acrostics would be alien to him. Lancaster plays a thug, an opportunist for whom commitment is solely a matter of expediency. But the movie does not give him much scope to develop any of this. Sometimes, standing on a dark street...
...critic or potential revolutionary, but because he fails to clarify the conditions against which his crusader is protesting, his message falls-flat. The Pope outrages his decadent court by stooping to kiss the feet that have trudged all the way to Rome, proclaiming that "in our obsession with original sin, we tend to forget original innocence." One of his courtiers recognizes a good thing when he sees it in a more cynical fashion; he believes that St. Francis will be able to bring the poor back to the Roman Catholic church. Both suppositions rest on shaky ground...
Ignatius shared with them one of the most remarkable spiritual guides ever written?his Spiritual Exercises. A distillation of Ignatius' own religious experience during and following his conversion, the Exercises are measured out prosaically in four flexible "weeks" of meditation that begin with a week on Sin, Death, Judgment and Hell, and move on to Christ's Life, Passion and Resurrection. They are the basis of every Jesuit's spirituality, returned to for refreshment through his career...