Word: sinse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Celibacy Is Better. The most conspicuous Shaker practice was celibacy. Men & women lived separately in communal houses. A Shaker elder once explained to Novelist William Dean Howells: Shakers did not so much believe that marriage was sinful as, with St. Paul, that marriage is good but celibacy is better. To...
At one end of the neo-Gothic transept, Sculptor Henry Moore's outsize figure of the Madonna & Child sat tranquil and serene. At the other hung Painter Graham Sutherland's agonized Christ on the Cross, bearing the sins and degradation of the world. Between them, in the center...
Not only did the demonstrators save Smith from a grave of his own digging, they put themselves and the organizations they represent in an unfavorable position. Any "liberal" group can expect to be branded Communistic at one time or another, but the zealots who heckled Smith into silence were practically...
"Did I Pretend?" All mortal sins must be confessed, but confession of minor offenses (like wife-nagging) is optional. Father Wilson says that there is no use worrying about long forgotten sins: "If [the Lord] does not recall the sin to your mind, He has no one to blame but...
Father Wilson tosses out a few hints on how penitents can make themselves less tedious to priests:* 1) don't adorn the tale ("Not a few people think that they will be wasting the priest's time, as well as disappointing the poor man, if they are unable...