Word: sin
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...musical tragedy, about a king who loses his wife to his best friend, loses his life under the sword of a bastard son born as the result of a union between the king and his own sister, and loses his state a political ideal called Gamelot to the besetting sin of its principal inhabitants...
...state-owned radio and TV unless they first submitted tape recordings of their songs. The regime has seized editions of various newspapers, ranging from the left-wing Catholic Témoignage Chrétien to the right-wing Ri-varol. Two cartoonists of the prickly, left-center Express-Siné (The French Cat) and Tim-were charged with "publicly insulting the army" in cartoons critical of the Algerian war. Oddly, the Moscow-financed Communist press, despite its noisy demands for peace in Algeria, remains untouched...
...Mortal-Sin Vote. The bishops were of no mind to let the issue die. In a second pastoral letter. James P. Davis of San Juan, Aponte Martinez of Lares and James E. McManus of Ponce reiterated and clarified their earlier warning against voting for Munoz. "To violate the law of God, which prohibits supporting a moral without God ... is a clear disobedience against God and evidently a sin...
Leaving no doubt as to where Bishop McManus stood, his chancellor at Ponce. Msgr. Victor M. Nazario, added that anyone who supported Muñoz Popular Democratic Party "not only commits a mortal sin but can also be excommunicated." Taking its cue, Puerto Rico's new Catholic Action Party, openly sponsored by Davis and McManus, took full-page daily ads in the newspapers to remind voters that "Catholics cannot vote for the Popular Party." Spot radio commercials proclaimed that "the Masons, the Protestants and the Communists obey Luis Muñoz Marin. Catholics obey their bishops...
What the church needs, Griffith announced in his first sermon, is a "return to orthodoxy." And what he intends to preach is "sin and redemption . . . historic gospel, timeless, Bible-centered messages which the church and only the church is capable of speaking...