Word: sacrosanct
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...this to say that every single teaching now a part of the Catechism is completely sacrosanct and inviolate? No, but the overhaul that some wish to inflict upon the Church would doom it to the same fate that so many other, previously vibrant, Christian denominations have experienced; a leadership that is confident in its own righteousness and a membership that has ceased to exist. One of the things that irks people about Catholicism is its explicit appeal to be a universal arbiter of right and wrong, yet this is also what gives it its enduring strength. Catholicism has seen...
DEATH REVEALED. Philip D. Estridge, 47, easygoing, exuberant IBM vice president and "intrapreneur" who between 1980 and 1984 moved with record speed and scant respect for sacrosanct tradition to build the company's personal computer division into a 10,000-employee, $5 billion-a-year concern with one hit product, the revolutionary PC, and one miss, the hapless PCjr, whose production was stopped last April for lack of sales; in the crash of Delta Air Lines Flight 191 near Dallas...
...such a discussion can’t be undertaken because one is considered sacrosanct and any other blasphemy...
...empower the Shiite majority are capable of brutal disruption of Iraqi political life, they don't have the capacity to overthrow the government. But the government would be far more vulnerable to mass demonstrations and insurrection by the Shiite majority, for whom the demand for a democratic election is sacrosanct. Delaying the election may be a riskier proposition than actually holding one. But even if the poll date remains firm, the jockeying of rival parties for position in the election campaign could produce confrontations of a more complex nature. For example, the movement of Moqtada Sadr, the firebrand Shiite rebel...
...submitting it to the public. And as if opposition from his own team wasn't enough, last week the European Commission announced it would put the E.U.'s €3 billion in agricultural export credits on the negotiating table to jump-start stalled global trade talks. The credits are sacrosanct in France, the largest recipient of such aid, and even more so to Chirac, who has made the defense of France's farmers an anchor of his political career. Chirac tried to stanch the wounds last week by issuing an unprecedented call to order to his troops in the National...