In a sentence. Alice Camille, writing in U.S. Catholic (August): “The deadliest sin in America is probably avarice, but it’s also the least confessed according to every priest I’ve ever talked to.”
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“My wealth is not only a product of my own hard work,” successful software entrepreneur Martin Rothenberg (Syracuse Language Systems) is quoted as saying at responsiblewealth.org. “It also resulted from a strong economy and lots of public investment, both in others and in me. I received a good public school education and used free libraries and museums paid for by others. I went to college under the GI Bill. I went to graduate school to study computers and language on a complete government scholarship….While teaching at Syracuse University for 25 years, my research was supported by numerous government grants.”
Arrested development. According to David Tracy of the University of Chicago (New Republic, April 26), American intellectuals who comment on religious matters “too often content themselves with recalling the memories of their youth, which are usually unhappy ones. If they took the same lazy way with the arts, they would still be lingering over The Nutcracker and The Exorcist.”
