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An Unworthy Friar. It was the sale of indulgences for good works that touched off Martin Luther to publish his 95 theses at Wittenberg. As a devout young Augustinian friar, Luther had been obsessed by the thought of his unworthiness as a sinful man before God, and no routine of...
As a famous Catholic author, Morin does not wish to create a scandal by not going to church, at least on Christmas Eve. But when he goes, he dares not take Communion. Why? Ostensibly, because of a sinful love affair. But the affair is long over, and he still cannot...
Some church groups hold that gambling is sinful. Newspapers often rail against its iniquities: the Detroit News recently warned that legalized gambling can only create a great "assemblage of shills, touts, confidence men, fast-dollar operators and freebooters." Politicians piously denounce gambling as a creator of corruptness. Yet for all...
Certifiably Sinful. A versifying virtuoso, Swinburne molded English into exotic patterns, borrowing widely from the classic Greek to the French symbolists. The results, which ranged from strum-strumming stanzas to languorous rhythms, hinted at unimaginable pagan debaucheries, hymned the fashionable cause of freedom against tyranny. But constitutionally, though he sported...
His only certifiably sinful relationship-with Music Hall Actress Adah Isaacs Menken-ended after six weeks. "I can't make Algernon understand," she ruefully explained, "that biting's no use." Eventually, he retired to the country for his health under the care of a proper Victorian solicitor-scholar...