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…. As senator, Helms maintained a conservative stance on social issues, leading crusades against abortion and homosexuality, supporting prayer in public schools, and opposing the busing of students for racial integration. When the tobacco industry came under attack…

…are forgiven, reaffirmed the seven sacraments, Purgatory exists, souls in purgatory benefit from our prayers, indulgences have a true spiritual value, condemned superstitious uses of relics and indulgences. First Vatican Council (1869-1870) The First…

…to pray for the dead whom were between the presence of Heaven and Hell. Martin found it unnecessary to crawl up the stairs of Scala Sancta, saying the Lord’s Prayer at each step, to save one’s soul. The most disturbing practice of the church was the granting…

…Throughout life and in society, man has acquired a fascination and appetite for wealth. This is greatly displayed in the non-fiction novel, The Pearl, written by John Steinbeck, which shows the destruction of man's life through greed. Throughout…

…early Army career, he excelled in staff assignments, serving under Generals John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur, and Walter Krueger. After Pearl Harbor, General George C. Marshall called him to Washington for a war plans assignment. He…

…to rights which they had not experienced before such as the freedom of press and speech. In Tennessee's "Monkey Trial" of 1925, John Scope, a science teacher, was convicted for teaching evolution. Only 43 years later would that state law be overturned…

…admittance; it will be his own fault if any one should endanger his health at Oxford by excessive study, our only business here being to go to prayers twice a day and to lecture twice a week. I am, dear Sir Your most oblig'd Servent Adam Smith (West 39…

…The last line of the Lord’s prayer is, “In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.” It is a key line in the Christian religion. The intention of this is reminding one of where we came from and to thank Jesus Christ for giving his life…

…. In his lonely hours he studied philosophy. In his reading he discovered the principle of nonviolence as enunciated in Henry David Thoreau's 'Civil Disobedience,' and he was persuaded by John Ruskin's plea to give up industrialism for farm life and traditional…

…doesn't need, for his own benefit. It seems as though he is more preoccupied with getting things that are an advantage to himself and his name, than he is with his religion and God. An example of someone noticing this is when John Proctor says, "A minister may…