Word: sinfull
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"The fact that the tiresome child, the lawbreaker and the unhappy lover now pass through [the doctors'] consulting rooms implies the belief that people in these predicaments are, or may be, ill. The concept of illness expands continually at the expense of the concept of moral failure . . . The significance...
"Plainly, the distinction between the mentally sick on the one hand and the sinful (or the miserable and the muddled) on the other, is getting shakier and shakier ... Hence the dilemma: either our psychiatrist must be spending his time upon those who are not really ill at all ... or our...
In New Orleans last week, another foe of segregation got a fiery reminder that not all Southerners are willing to wrestle with their prejudices. An eight-foot, gasoline-soaked wooden cross was ignited before the residence of Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph F. Rummel, who has called segregation "morally wrong and...
Follereau abhors discrimination against leprosy sufferers. Said he last week: "They are less contagious and less dangerous than people suffering from tuberculosis. It is sinful and immoral to treat them like pariahs. They are, first of all, human."
Nostalgia for the past "is an old pagan disease. There is nothing Christian in it. The Church in her teaching and liturgy shows no signs of nostalgia. She does not dream of a Golden Age to which she longs to return. For her the Second Adam is infinitely better than...