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Cult of Adultery. Romance, even within the bonds of wedlock, was looked at askance by the early Christians. Writes Historian Bainton: "Women were strongly exhorted not to make themselves attractive." Virginity was highly prized by the more pious counselors. Saint Jerome expatiated on the difficulties and disadvantages of matrimony. But the great Saint Augustine, with a more moderate view of marriage ethics, set the basis of Roman Catholic teaching today...
...TIME verified its facts, would expect the Supervising Psychologist of the Chicago State Hospital to verify his. Said Cardinal Griffin (as correctly quoted by TIME) : "With regard to the use of contraceptives, Pope Pius XI says: 'The act of wedlock is . . . designed for the procreation of offspring and therefore those who . . . deprive it of its natural power and efficacy, act against nature and do something which is shameful and intrinsically immoral.' It is the common teaching of Catholic theologians that contraceptive intercourse, whether with the aid of instruments or not, is not consummation of marriage...
...Saroyan's deadpan description of its plot: "The story of a man who spends all his life in penitentiaries while society tries to determine his guilt, which appears to be that he was born out of wedlock. When his innocence is established, he is 80 years old and eager to find a wife and raise a family. On the first day of his freedom he dies in the arms of a girl of eleven who is placed in a house of correction where she dies in childbirth. Her infant son is placed in a foundling home where...
...surrogate by a Manhattan attorney named Raymond T. Armbruster told a startling story. Armbruster's story: two months before her death last summer, a rich, British-born, Park Avenue socialite named Mrs. Mabel Seymour Greer told him of a girlhood indiscretion. She had borne a child out of wedlock in Boston more than half a century before. The father: Dr. Willard B. Segur. In Armbruster's opinion her child and only heir was the doctor's adopted son, Harold Alfred Segur...
...soft eastern girl from being cheated of her inheritance, learns that he himself is the rightful heir to the K.C. Ranch. By this same bold fiat of plotting, which slices the Gordian knot paper-thin, it is also shown that he and the young lady are cousins, ineligible for wedlock. This leaves the weather clear and the track fast for a neck-and-neck finish, shared by Mr. Wayne and a fierce, rough-coated local filly (Ella Raines...