Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sentimental humanists (who do not believe in either saints or sinners) would say: Scobie was a "sinner," yes. But might not his sins have been purged by an earthly purgatory of suffering? And did he not try to repent the final sin of all? When the poison he had swallowed brought a great cloud down over the room, Scobie was trying to make an Act of Contrition. And just before his body thudded to the floor, he managed to say aloud, "Dear God, I love...
Scobie is incapable of wounding his wife by admitting his relations with the girl-and equally incapable of wounding the girl by breaking off their relations. To reassure his wife, who has heard the gossip, he receives Communion when he is in this state of mortal sin; and at last it is the same sense of enormous "responsibility" that makes him decide that suicide is preferable to his prolonging the two women's agony...
Both techniques, says Father White, are valid means of combating two forms of evil - one called sin and one called psychoneurosis. "But the evil with which each is concerned is essentially different, even mutually opposed. Sin is denned as an evil human act . . . malum culpae -'the evil men do' ... A psychoneurosis, on the contrary, is a certain malum poenae - an 'evil men suffer' or 'undergo' . . . Confession presupposes the power to sin and to turn from sin and seek forgiveness ; analysis usually presupposes necessity and impotence...
...some Roman Catholic bishops, Washington, D.C. seemed like a hotbed of sin and political skulduggery-no fit place to start a school for priests. But when Pope Leo XIII polled the whole U.S. hierarchy to find out where to build a Catholic University of America, wicked Washington won in a walk...
...Judgment thunders: the wages of sin is death. Ye must...