Word: sinfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...until 1980, when he was blocked by the state's constitution from seeking a third successive term. He came back last fall, when he was eligible, and recaptured the office from the Republican incumbent, David Treen, who fell from grace with the electorate for committing the unpardonable sin-in Louisiana-of being dull. The Governor's raven-haired daughter Vickie explained the public's fondness for Edwards as the plane bibulously roared toward France. Said Vickie: "That man really gives a damn about his state...
...authoritarian governments in Africa represents a stage in the political development of what are still very young nations. "We have to recognize that the constitutions we bequeathed to our former African colonies don't work in some places," says a British official. "It is not a mortal sin for these countries to adapt them to their own particular circumstances...
...sense, the greater the sin, the more the forgiving is necessary-even indispensable. Consider the American South, the scene of an enormous historical wrong that persisted for centuries...
John Paul designated penance as the topic for last October's synod of bishops, not only because he stresses the sacrament's importance but because its practice nowadays is in a state of flux and confusion. Theologians disagree over what sort of sins require absolution, and whether young children should confess before making their First Communion, as the Vatican desires, or a few years later when they may have a better understanding of the nature of sin. A majority of U.S. parishes now offer face-to-face confession with a priest as an alternative to the austere, anonymous...
...world" and the prime example of "sin and evil" that "we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose. . . with all our might...