Word: sinfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the proposed pact was a "swindle" that would automatically involve Nigeria in war if Britain got in trouble. In his rich, rolling bass, Sir Abubakar fired back: "I have always regarded the leader of the Opposition as a good Christian; in Christianity as in Islam, it is a sin to tell a lie." While Awolowo stared grimly at the ceiling, the Assembly ratified the treaty by a vote...
...three bishops denounced Governor Luis Muñoz Marín's Popular Democratic Party for its "anti-Catholic and antiChristian" toleration of birth control, sterilization and common-law marriage (TIME. Oct. 31), warned that Catholics who voted for the P.D.P. would "inevitably" be guilty of sin. Nevertheless, Muñoz won an overwhelming victory at the polls. At all Sunday Masses last week, the pastor of San Juan Cathedral, Father Thomas Maisonet, told parishioners who voted for P.D.P. that they must confess this "sin" before they can receive Communion again. Speaking on his own authority, but evidently with...
...Felisa Rincón de Gautier, the P.D.P. mayoress of San Juan, said: "At that moment, I felt that Father Maisonet was more a sinner than myself, for he was denying Communion to many good people who did not in their hearts believe that they had committed a sin." Doña Felisa defiantly announced that she intended to receive Communion without confessing or repenting her vote...
...maintained a discreet silence about the controversy, but privately many felt that the Puerto Rican bishops had gone too far. Legally there was no doubt that the bishops were within their rights. The Vatican generally seemed to support the bishops, recalling that Pope Pius XII had declared it a sin to vote for the Communists in Italy's 1948 election (an edict that the Italian clergy was never able to enforce). Nevertheless there was room for argument and interpretation...
...Modern civilization, he argued, was grounded on Renaissance humanism, with its assumption of man's innate perfectibility. This optimistic view had been compounded by the 19th century's evolutionary belief in cultural continuity and the idea of progress. To this, Hulme opposed the doctrine of original sin and the idea that man's nature is fixed, constant and imperfectible...