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...sinner was freed from eternal punishment (hell) through the sacrament of Penance. But temporal punishment (on earth or in purgatory) remained, and it could be removed in full by an indulgence granted to Holy Year pilgrims by the Pope, who controlled an "inexhaustible" treasury of the merits of Christ, Mary and the saints. In medieval and Renaissance times the church raised money by giving indulgences in return for donations. Later eliminated, this corrupting practice was the spark that set off Luther's Reformation...
Spiritual Uplift. The movie, which is inveterately confusing, has to do with Jonathan E. bucking the corporate biggies and refusing to retire on command. Director Norman Jewison (Jesus Christ Superstar) and Screenwriter William Harrison champion nonconformity and the glories of individuality against a faceless state as zealously as if they had just discovered these notions writ large on a fiery tablet. Only those for whom these ideas are also a revelation will appreciate the cautions that are strewn throughout the film like pennants waving in the cheap seats...
...bodies slipped last year to 131,245,139. Though the decline was slight (about 180,000), it was the first that the Yearbook has recorded in nearly three decades, and reflected eroding membership in the mainstream liberal Protestant denominations: the United Methodists, Episcopalians, United Presbyterians, the United Church of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). In such groups, jobs are lacking not so much for new graduates as for mid-career preachers seeking better churches...
...Britons went to the polls and 17,378,581 of them said yes to Europe. Even in Northern Ireland, where the Rev. Ian Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church had warned that "a vote for the Common Market is a vote for ecumenism, Rome, dictatorship and anti-Christ," the pro-EEC cause won by a 52.1% majority. For Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who had staked his political future on the referendum, the vote was a resounding personal triumph. Indeed, London's pro-Labor Daily Mirror suggested that Wilson may now become "the most powerful peacetime Prime Minister...
...Christ's sake. I thought, what was wrong with these people? What was it all for, anyway. Who was this kid to be wearing a German helmet? Who were they not to know what...