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Hell. The dreadful possibility remains, though, that one's wish for beatitude may be so weakened by self-indulgence that in the moment of death the soul may "shrink away from the presence of God." If this happens, "we shall have what we have willed to have. We shall...
Iron Paternalism. The victorious Horthy entered Budapest on a white horse, proclaiming. "I've come to punish this sinful city." The Red Terror became a counterterror, much of it directed against the Jews (Kun was Jewish). Though Horthy's country had been shorn of its seacoast and had...
Surely you received better explanations of Roman Catholic teaching on kissing in response to "The Venial Kiss" than the "I never heard of it being sinful" letter which you published [Oct. 29]. A kiss between unmarried persons which neither aims at nor arouses specifically sexual pleasure is not sinful. It...
At Sodom (current population: about 1,000), where the Lord saved Lot and his naughty daughters, then rained fire and brimstone on the sinful city, a 6 ft. sign went up this month. Written in Hebrew and English, it noted that "Sodom is the lowest point of habitation in the...
Is boxing sinful? Two Roman Catholic moralists are slugging it out over the issue, while Italy roots at the ringside. In the staid church fortnightly. Palestra del Clero, Jesuit Alfredo Boschi has been conducting a campaign against the sport as a violation of the commandment "Thou shalt not kill." "Professional...