Word: devoutness
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...brought up in a devout (Brethren in Christ) family, later considered himself a non-sectarian Christian. He was formally baptized in Washington's National Presbyterian Church in a private ceremony two weeks after his inauguration (TIME...
...Joan Ring of Clayton, Mo., a 17-year-old high-school student, made a pilgrimage to the shrine at Lourdes, France, where the Roman Catholic Church has officially affirmed miracles of healing. Joan, a devout Catholic, had undergone an operation for cancer and was seeking "spiritual help" for recovery. A little more than a year after her visit to Lourdes she had completely recovered. When they filed their joint 1949 income tax, Joan's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent P. Ring, claimed the cost of the trip to Lourdes ($2,787.19) as a medical expense...
...Luis Cardinal Copello, publicly prayed for "most copious blessings from Heaven" on the President. But last year the opposition-hating strongman began worrying about clerical influence in organizations of workers, professionals and students, and even more about what looked like the beginnings of a Catholic political party in the devout inland province of Cordoba. Last October the Peron government launched an on-and-off feud with the church. Since then the government has cut its subsidies to church schools to a trickle, dismissed dozens of priests from posts as teachers and chaplains, fired scores of government officials who belonged...
Burma's Premier U Nu is a devout Buddhist, a Socialist and a sufficiently alert observer of the current scene to recognize Red China privately as the beast next door. U Nu is also an impeccable outward neutralist, a sponsor for Red China at international conferences, reluctant to accept arms from the West against Burma's own Communist rebellion. Last week however, U Nu found a canny way out of his difficulties: in exchange for some of Burma's piled-up rice surplus, he would collect enough military hardware to equip a brigade-not from the suspect...
When Gian-Carlo Menotti was a child, at home near Milan, he was crippled in one leg. A devout nurse took him to a shrine of the Madonna, and shortly afterwards he was cured. He still believes that his cure could have been miraculous. But at the same time, Composer Menotti also believes that he does not believe: he admits to skepticism and has left the Roman Catholic Church. This contradiction has turned up in Menotti operas before (e.g., The Medium), in the shape of dramatic conflicts between some form of faith and reason. The theme is rousingly treated...