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Sodomy, smoking, and and the inversion of vices

March 29, 2022 Stephen G. Adubato 9

“You must have a cigarette.” wrote Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray. “A cigarette is a perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can […]

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In the Habit: A History of Catholicism and Tobacco

November 9, 2017 John B. Buescher 7

Saints who smoked, popes who puffed, and others who snuffed. […]

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Readings: • Jer 1:4-5, 17-19 • Ps 71:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 15-17 • 1 Cor 12:31—13:13 or 13:4-13 • Lk 4:21-30 The nineteenth-century poet Thomas Moore once observed: “The prophet ill sustains his holy call/Who finds not […]

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