Doug Henwood wrote:
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> But rejecting the Holy Ghost is the only unforgivable sin, if I'm
> remembering my Catholic doctrine right.
"The Sin" (not defined anyplace if I remember correctly) _against_ the Holy Ghost is unforgiveable. Hawthorne wrote one or two stories in which he made [________] said sin. I can't remember what it is or which stories it appears in. It's been a long time since I read Hawthorne. I know nothing of elementary Catholic doctrine, so perhaps they define "against" as "not believing in"??? I believe Peter Abelard got in trouble more by over-emphasizing the Holy Ghost than by screwing Heloise. (I don't believe the medieval church cared who he screwed, but his sharp mode of polemics irked them.) He named his monastery The Paraclete. I forget now though what kind of heresy that threatened. Among other trivia I know longer remember in any detail, someone some years ago wrote one or two crime novels in which Peter Abelard was the 'detective.'
Carrol
That's hardly Dangerfield
> territory.
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> Doug
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