Word: turkel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spiritual danger of going steady is spelled out in some detail by Free-Lance Writer Roma Rudd Turkel in Information, a monthly publication of the Paulist Fathers. The church, she writes, "knows that it is impossible (not improbable but impossible) for a boy and a girl to be alone together in an intimate and exclusive companionship for any length of time without serious sin. And she has seen the tragic pattern shaping up Saturday night after Saturday night in parish churches across the country; these boys and girls start making bad confessions, then no confessions, followed by no sacraments...
...practice of going steady has even "dipped into the grade schools to excite ten-and eleven-year-olds with its poison." If the situation continues, writes Author Turkel, the church may well pronounce going steady "a specific mortal sin [and] legislate on the matter as she has done on mixed marriages, and on other situations where the welfare of individual souls and family life is concerned...