Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missionary, the smell of dirt is agreeable. From this point of view, they themselves are the dirtiest swine of all. They have a horror of water. And those repulsive priests, when they question a child of seven in the confessional, it's they themselves who incite it to sin...
...Mortal Sin? Mexico's Archbishop Martinez indicated that the case of Sloan and Bill O'Dwyer was under study and might lead to a permanent separation or annulment. But Sloan was not content to wait. Last week it was disclosed that she had sued her husband in a Mexican civil court last February on the ground of mental cruelty. Said her petition: "The irascible character of my husband, which in time led to almost continual threats and insults, is the cause of all our trouble...
...Dwyer said in Mexico City that as a Catholic he could not recognize the civil action. Sloan said that she had hoped a church annulment would come through simultaneously with a civil divorce; she indicated that she had no intention of putting herself in a state of mortal sin by remarrying without one. On the advice of church authorities, she is planning to return to Mexico to be interrogated by an ecclesiastical council...
Figueres, educated at M.I.T. and recently divorced from an American wife, is something of a phenomenon in Costa Rica. After college, he bought a barren finca in Cartago which he called La Lucha Sin Fin (Struggle Without End), in recognition of the farmer's never-ending battle with nature. There he learned firsthand about the peasants' problems, set up a private welfare state for his own workers. He built them clean bungalows, saw them well fed from a community vegetable farm and a dairy that provided free milk for every child. In 1948, when the outgoing government tried...
...late Bishop James A. Griffin of the Roman Catholic diocese of Springfield denounced a passage from Stoddard's book. The Meaning of Intelligence: "Manmade concepts such as devils, witches, taboos, hellfire, original sin . . . and divine revelation . . . have distorted the intellectual processes of millions." Unitarian Stoddard protested that, taken as a whole, his book urged a "return to religion." Gradually, the storm blew over, but it was never forgotten...