Religion: Words & Works

¶Eve may have suggested the crime but Adam was guiltier, said the Vatican weekly Osservatore della Domenica in response to a reader's query. Reason: Adam, as "head of humanity," had the greater responsibility.

¶"The clergy has fallen down on this business of the Communist Party," said Morris Ernst, lawyer and professional liberal, to officer-students of the Southern Police Institute in Louisville, Ky. By stressing the difference between "guilt and regret," he said, clergymen could encourage many more disillusioned Communists to leave the party. "It is the province of religion to hold before men the...

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