Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Heinrich Boll and 133 other prominent Europeans publicly petitioned Rome to ease up in its objections to married priests, birth control, divorce and mixed marriage (47% of German Catholics now marry outside their faith). Here and there on the tour picketers protested about abortion and birth control, or held such placards as Frauen zum Altar (women to the altar). At the Pope's last stop, Barbara Engl, speaking for Munich's Catholic youth league, attacked the church for constant "prohibitions" on "friendship, sexuality and partnership...
...Pope's tour was a step forward, however. It followed a substantive break through. Earlier this year Lutheran and Catholic negotiators stated that despite differences on many practices, the content of the Augsburg Confession "in large measure . . . can be regarded as an expression of the common faith." The principal doctrinal dispute that produced the Reformation was faith vs. good works in salvation...
...from a very weak hand. That became evident last week when Administration sources confirmed that Poland had asked the U.S. for $3 billion in low-interest loans over three years. A rescue mission of such magnitude is an impossibility for the lame-duck Carter Administration. But to show good faith, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie has recommended that credit guarantees for grain sales to Poland be increased from $670 million to a reported $900 million over the next year. According to British Trade Minister Cecil Parkinson, who was in Warsaw last week, Poland is also seeking new loans from West...
Resurrection risks offending orthodox believers and staunch rationalists alike and finding itself without an audience. Yet the movie manages to maintain its equanimity and effectively synthesize an agnostic faith in love, life, and life after life...
...depression. I say, when Jimmy Carter's out of a job, this nation is on the way to recovery. Like any president-elect, Ronald Reagan carries the baggage of pregnant campaign promises to office this January. Unlike others before him, however, "Ronnie" betrays a suspicious amount of faith in his grab-bag of rhetoric about economics--tax cuts, defederalization, and Laffer Curve explosions. Less government is the promiscuous rabbit he promises to produce from his cowboy hat to stimulate business. Let the private sector make us great again televisions and the late show for everyone...