Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Calvin Coolidge's legendary preacher, Reinhold Niebuhr is against sin. But Dr. Niebuhr is no simple evangelist urging good works and blind faith; his battle with sin cuts thick theological ice. He has sawed away to such effect in his 53 years that he is generally known as the No. 1 theologian of U.S. Protestantism...
...Penitentes of the southwestern U.S. began their famed, secretive Holy Week ceremonies, they added a new form of mortification to the lashes, thorns and vigils with which they traditionally atone for sin. The new humiliation: a lawsuit, the first in Penitente history. It threatened to bring some of the closest Penitente secrets out of the windowless adobe moradas ("purple houses") into the daylight of a civil court in Old Las Vegas...
...banned the cult as barbaric. It now enjoys clerical toleration. Weakened but persistent, the Penitentes retreated to remote villages, continued their Holy Week rites, but stood by with carbines to ward off nosy gringos who were baffled but fascinated by the twin Spanish traits: a passionate sense of sin and a flair for cruelty...
...Russian Church counted further gains. Izvestia now prints the hierarchy's pastoral literature, which is obligingly directed not against sin but against non-Communist politics. Several priests were chosen in the recent election to sit in the two Chambers of the Supreme Soviet...
...Mistress Mine. Lunt & Fontanne, still their incomparably cavorting selves as a British Cabinet Minister and a widow living in gay, sumptuous sin (TIME...