Word: sinned
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...will lose its élan and its independence in the merger. There is also some Protestant concern about a "Papist takeover." It has been noted that Dublin's Archbishop John C. McQuaid still sends out an annual pastoral letter warning Catholics that attendance at Trinity is a mortal sin. Dispensations, however, are freely given, and since many students simply ignore the ban, a full one-third of the enrollment is Catholic...
Smoking pot may be against the law, but it is not necessarily a sin. That seems to be the consensus among Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy who have had any dealings with the marijuana-puffing youth of the turned-on generation...
...University of California at Berkeley, whose Contraception is the most thorough study of Catholic teaching on the subject. At a Washington press conference, Noonan suggested that the encyclical may ultimately be regarded as just another mistake of the papacy, like the medieval declarations that usury is a sin, or Pius IX's insistence that the papal states of Italy existed by divine will...
...will be countless quiet, unannounced defections from the church. At the same time, there is evidence that many Catholics will simply ignore the encyclical, without considering themselves any the worse for it. "There are millions of people to whom the Pope seems to be saying, 'You are in sin,' " said Father Robert Fox of Chicago's Loyola University. "They're answering back, The hell...
...ORIGINAL SIN. The concept that every human inherits Adam's guilt has increasingly been challenged by a counterview: "original sin" is man's inborn weakness, but the only sins for which a man can be held accountable are those committed of his own free will. Not so, said Paul: "We believe that in Adam all have sinned." The Pope specifically reaffirmed a pronouncement by the Council of Trent, which maintained that original sin is transmitted "not by imitation but by propagation...