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...history's most controversial woman. For centuries Protestants have vehemently opposed her exaltation; papal pronouncements concerning her status have driven a wedge between the Vatican and the Eastern / Orthodox Church. Conflict surrounds the notions that she remained ever a virgin, that she as well as Jesus was born without sin and that her sufferings at the Crucifixion were so great that she participated with her son in the redemption of humanity...
Immaculate Conception. This tenet holds that Mary was conceived without original sin. The concept was popular for centuries but was not defined as Catholic dogma by the papacy until 1854, partly in response to popular pressure stirred up by Marian apparitions. Unofficial belief adds that Mary lived a perfect life. Protestants insist the Bible portrays Jesus as the only sinless person. Marina Warner, author of Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary, contends that Rome's dogma artificially sets Mary apart from the rest of the human race...
...Ronald Reagan's White House, there was no greater sin than to suggest that America could improve its competitiveness by stoking private industry with federal money. Reagan's free-market economists launched search-and- destroy missions whenever such "industrial policy" proposals were floated in Washington. Never mind that many strategic industries in Japan and Europe, boosted at crucial moments by government support, were winning market share from their American counterparts. Reagan's opposition to industrial policy was so fierce that the expression itself had become politically incorrect by the decade's end. During the 1988 campaign, George Bush derided such...
Forget the fish, the flies that attract them are so exquisite it seems a sin to get them wet. With such tantalizing names as Silver Monkey, Colonel's Lady, Pompadour and Easy Off, the flies in this beautifully photographed book are the real trophies that should be mounted on the wall...
Like Milton, hubris was his sin...