Word: sinfully
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Thus, for roughly half a century, young Catholics were initiated into the sacrament of penance and its promise of forgiveness from God. The results, many Catholic educators agree, were often disastrous. Some young penitents became haunted by the fear of mortal sin and going to hell. Others developed false consciences, accusing themselves of sins that were only the harmless exuberances of a child. Still others dreaded the whole experience so fiercely that they gave it up for good as soon as they were able to. Those who continued to receive the sacrament were sometimes spiritually stunted, unable to go beyond...
...whose studies discerned a number of stages in a child's intellectual and moral growth. Though a child might have a rudimentary sense of right and wrong at the traditional "age of reason," seven, the studies seemed to indicate that he did not develop a sense of personal sin until nine...
Wright's opponents concede-indeed insist-that confession must never be denied to a child who is ready for it. But they also maintain that a child cannot be required to receive the sacrament unless he is conscious of serious sin. Jesuit Francis Buckley of the University of San Francisco points out that canon law itself defines the age of reason differently for the reception of the Eucharist and penance...
...Vatican will soon amend a canon law that forbids Catholic funeral services -or even burial in consecrated ground -to "public sinners," a category that has often included Catholics in "irregular" marriages. The new law will allow religious funerals for those who, "although finding themselves in a manifest situation of sin, have retained their attachment to the church and have shown some sign of penitence." Pastors must avoid "public scandal," however, and can do so by explaining the "meaning of Christian funerals, in which may be seen a recourse to the infinite mercy of God." Thus, while irregularly remarried Catholics cannot...
Wells was the last of the high-level saturation prophets. His success as a futurist was based on a supreme confidence in man's worst instincts. For Wells, an atheist, theological good and evil did not exist. Original sin resided in the pinkish gray folds of the brain and expressed itself through brutish linkage, which operated the prehensile thumb. Given tools enough and time, Homo sapiens would turn the most charming toy, the most fetching theory, into a weapon...