Word: devoutedly
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...Financed by a $250,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation, the four-year study was conducted by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center and edited by two of its sociologists: the Rev. Andrew M. Greeley, a Catholic priest, and Peter H. Rossi, a self-styled "devout agnostic...
...devout Roman Catholic is abandoned by his wife. Unable to live a celibate life, he eventually remarries outside the church. He and his new wife live exemplary Christian lives and bring up their children in the Catholic faith. Nonetheless, they cannot receive the sacraments. According to church law, their marriage is invalid, and they are thus living in a state of mortal...
...couple had been praying for a child ever since they were wed in 1960. The devout husband even made a pilgrimage to Lourdes. All to no avail-until last week, when Belgium's King Baudouin happily announced that his beloved Queen Fabiola, 38, expects an heir to the throne this winter. The news was kept a strict secret until the fragile Queen had passed her critical third month, since she had been bitterly disappointed by three early miscarriages in the past. And as Fabiola canceled all engagements for the duration, all Belgium hoped for a safe accouchement...
...Trains to Czestochowa did not arrive at stations, and prospective passengers were brusquely told, "There are no more tickets left." Buses and cars were stopped for endless roadside identity checks, detours and delays. Yet, despite the obstacles thrown up by Wladyslaw Gomulka's Communist regime, some 300,000 devout Poles last week came by bus, car, train, horseback, buggy, bicycle or foot to the Jasna Gora monastery, the nation's most sacred shrine, which stands on a high hill overlooking Czestochowa. On May 3, the traditional Polish national holiday, the pilgrims prayed and sang before a giant outdoor...
...observation and experiment and constantly verified by further processes of practice and observation." The prestige of science has been helped along by the analytic tradition of philosophy, which tends to limit "meaningful" ideas and statements to those that can be verified. It is no wonder, then, that even devout believers are empirical in outlook, and find themselves more at home with vis ible facts than unseen abstractions...