"The unforgiveable sins this earth must confront and overcome are 
 Nationalism, capitalism, and hoarding.  The idea of every nation 
 should be forgot, price should be struck from the commons, and 
 princes should be seen for the devils they are.  The sins include 
 our church, secret societies, and other religions which make of 
 the spirit of God a divide." 

Last rites declaration of Ioannes Paulus PP. II (Karol Wojtyla)
2nd April 2005






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to hear 'em talk.

She seems to have very much of the fear of God before her eyes, and an
extraordinary dread of sinning against Him; of which her mother
mentioned the following remarkable instance. Some time in August, the
last year, she went with some bigger children to get some plums in a
neighbor's lot, knowing nothing of any harm in what she did; but when
she brought some of the plums into the house, her mother mildly reproved
her, and told her that she must not get plums without leave, because it
was sin: God had commanded her not to steal. The child seemed greatly
surprised, and burst out in tears, and cried out, I won't have these
plums! and turning to her sister Eunice, very earnestly said to her, Why
did you ask me to go to that plum tree? I should not have gone, if you
had not asked me. The other children did not seem to be much affected or
concerned; but there was no pacifying Phebe. Her mother told her, she
might go and ask leave, and then it would not be sin for her to eat
them; and sent one of the children to that end; and, when she returned,
her mother told her that the owner had given leave, now she might eat
them, and it would not be stealing. This stilled her a little while; but
presently she broke out again into an exceeding fit of crying. Her
mother asked her, What made her cry again? Why she cried now, since they
had asked leave? What it was that troubled her now? And asked her
several times very earnestly, before she made any answer; but at last
said, It was because, because it was sin. She continued a considerable
time crying; and said she would not go again if Eunice asked her an
hundred times; and she retained her aversion to that fruit for a
considerable time, under the remembrance of her former sin.

She sometimes a


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