The tendency observable in many of the austerities and miracles attributed to St Catherine to outstrip those of other saints, particularly Francis, is especially remarkable in this marvel of the stigmata, and so acute became the rivalry between the two orders that Pope Sixtus IV., himself a Franciscan, issued a decree asserting that St Francis had an exclusive monopoly of this particular wonder, and making it a censurable offence to represent St Catherine receiving the stigmata.   anvd [Please select]

He would have been less censurable had he struck Varina with his fist or kicked her.   anvd [Please select]

I contend that neither labor, nor occupation, nor law, can create property; that it is an effect without a cause: am I censurable.   anvd [Please select]

Much, has been said in condemnation of this love-affair; but in many ways it is less censurable than almost anything in his career.   anvd [Please select]