Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mankind, by its genesis, is revolutionary; mankind redeemed by Christ is ceaselessly storming original sin and the sin of the world whatever it may be ... Redemption is a perpetual fight, a perpetual effort of mankind against the inner evil that strangles it. Then why have these songs of joy and deliverance, started maybe a bit clumsily by the great socialist leaders, met only with condemnation amongst us, contented hearts and closed minds that we are? ... Why have we, who are living no more the lot of the poor, lost the meaning of the word 'Saviour...
Moment of Choice. Election day was warm, clear and calm. Voting was heavier than expected: all candidates had exhorted Frenchmen to do their duty, and Roman Catholic leaders had said it would be less of a sin for Catholics to miss Mass that Sunday than to fail to vote...
...regular part of the Savoy-Plaza cuisine. Along with such unfamiliar entrées as yogurt and wild rice nut-burgers, they downed many a sample of the only cocktail recommended. "The grapefruit juice is for health," explained TV's Eloise McElhone, "and the gin is for sin." Quickly downing one himself, Dietitian Hauser strode to the microphone, proudly announced that Mrs. Betty Henderson, café society's 75-year-old flapper, had just marveled: "I met you 31 years ago and you still aren't fat!" "I hope," he added, "I shall never be." But when...
...Catholic Church had strongly rallied to De Gasperi's side. The archbishops and bishops of Tuscany proclaimed: "Voters who give their votes to parties professing doctrines contrary to the Catholic faith commit a mortal sin." Why had Church intervention not produced a bigger anti-Communist vote? Explained the Vatican's Osservatore Romano: Not all Italians "born Catholic, and even professing still to be so, are .. . faithful followers of the Church...
Five-year-old John Muir College* at Pasadena (enrollment: 2,000) has no more than the average quota of campus sin. But to Fred Phelps, 21, a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), craggy-faced engineering student from Meridian, Miss., John Muir is a weed-grown vineyard. Day after day this spring he has called upon his fellow students to repent. His method: to walk up to groups of boys & girls munching their lunchtime sandwiches in the quadrangle, ask "May I say a few words?" and launch into a talk...