Word: creede
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...Washington, Novak is a leading lay thinker in the U.S. Catholic Church. He is the author of The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, which posits that a free economy is the natural embodiment of Western religious ideals, and of the forthcoming Confessions of a Catholic, a reflection on the Nicene Creed. As a student of both strategic and theological questions, Novak finds the argument made in the draft pastoral letter of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops to be seriously flawed both as a political document and as a religious one. "They are overreaching," he says. "The desire to speak like...
...they meant not only that "Never again" would six million Jews (and, let us never forget, also six million Poles. Catholic priests, Russians, Ukranians, gypsies, and homosexuals) he systematically exterminated; but also that the Jewish people would never tolerate the oppression of any people simply because of their race, creed or color...
...Kathryn Harrold) played as a capable, no-nonsense sort of woman, uninterested in opera and unimpressed by its big-kid egos, then you have, at least, a package you can get produced, if not exactly a movie the whole world is waiting for. True to the packager's creed, Yes, Giorgio has something for everyone whose taste was formed in the '50s; lots of cute lovers' spats but no visible sex, a rich range of overlit settings for a parade of Pavarotti's greatest hits, plus a funny nun, two funny servants...
...seasons (five) and only Joe McCarthy had more (six). Weaver did it largely by being, in his own words,"a truthful, rotten little s.o.b." Though he once screamed at an umpire, "Only you, me and God know the truth!" irreverence has served him as a kind of creed. "Skip, don't you want me to walk with the Lord?" a born-again outfielder, Pat Kelly, asked him when Weaver once implored Kelly to hold down the piety. "Kell," Weaver said, "I'd rather have you walk with the bases loaded...
...been a force in Argentina since the mid-1940s. Twice, from 1946 to 1955 and briefly in 1973 and 1974, its founder held power. Twice also, according to the movement's critics, Peronism brought Argentina to the brink of ruin. Yet so strong is the creed's appeal, especially among lower and working classes, that most political experts estimate that the Peronists would win between 40% and 50% of the vote if free elections were held...