Word: virginal
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...pleasure to learn that Protestant faiths are changing their mind about the Virgin Mary. She is, indeed, the Mother of God. Though Mary is honored by God, she is not a goddess, and Roman Catholicism, to which I belong, does not worship Mary as a divine person. Catholics revere Mary the same as they love an elder, affectionate and powerful sister, and that is enough to give them happiness. Jacques Euzeby Marcy l'Etoile, France It was wonderful to see Mary on TIME's cover. She is humanity's greatest friend and intercessor but never takes or shares the place...
...only to be gently rebuffed by superiors who saw in him another sort of potential. But he had maintained a contemplative practice. (Rocco Buttiglione, a friend and an author, once described the Pontiff's reverie: "The faith is like a strike of lightning, illuminating everything.") His devotion to the Virgin Mary, to whom his personal motto--Totus tuus (All yours)--referred, was lifelong, and he was known to prostrate himself before her statues. Since the shooting occurred on the anniversary of the 1917 apparition of the Virgin near Fatima in Portugal, he was convinced he owed his life...
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...opened in theaters in San Francisco and New York -and, more important, wasn't closed down by the police. Set in the Bay Area, Mona had no redeeming social interest, only redeeming prurient interest. It's about an engaged girl who has promised her mom she'd be a virgin on her wedding day, but figures fellatio doesn't count. The movie spends its 70 mins. following the parallel adventures of Mona and Mama. (Both generations sup at the loins of Mona's fiance, and take my word, mom's hotter.) When her fiance learns about her outside partners...
...ambition was clear in Devil in Miss Jones. Spelvin plays Justine Jones, a lonely woman who slits her wrists in a bathtub. After dying a virgin, she tells a gatekeeper to eternity that she wants to live out her sexual urges, to be "filled, engulfed, consumed by lust." She briefly gets that wish -which includes intimate contact with bananas and grapes, a snake and (Damiano's favorite marital aid) a water tube. (He has a similar scene in Deep Throat and later devoted an entire movie, Water Power, to high colonics.) With plenty of boy/girl, girl/girl and orgy "action," Devil...