Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vatican's inflexibility with respect to altering long-held dogmas should surprise no one. The whole Ecumenical movement has never resulted in any substantial changes, only in talk about changes. The rulings that the Mass may be sung in English, that it isn't a sin to eat meat on Friday, and that the Jews didn't kill Christ after all, are hardly of major importance. On all the significant issues-birth control, divorce, abortion, censorship -the church hasn't budged an inch...
...blame for this situation can be placed on two undefeated teams, and Harvard Stadium, which seats only 40,000. Despite the fact that many students are being led into wallowing sin, observant Ec 1 students are getting a good look at how a good capitalist system works...
MAKING GOOD AGAIN, by Lionel Davidson. Was Germany's cruelty to the Jews a sin or a crime or both? A writer of suspense novels tackles the question and spins a subtle tale as well...
Cushing's earlier declaration that "Jacqueline Kennedy is free to marry whomever she wishes," caused dissension among American Catholics. Liberals praised it as being in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council, while conservatives grumbled that Cushing was condoning public sin...
...West German government's commendable attempt to pay reparations to the victims of Nazi cruelty is the most remarkable effort in history to treat sin as crime and then atone for it in cash. In absolute terms, the whole idea is preposterous: How can one recompense a man for his own death? And though payments, of course, are made to next of kin, the Wiedergutmachung (literally "making good again") is a legal anomaly that intentionally permits all sorts of quasi-legal advantages to the claimants. It is a "beautiful piece of liberal and humane legislation," as one of Lionel...