Word: devout
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...Buenos Aires. The Peronists had distributed leaflets through the capital and other cities with exhortations calling EVERYONE TO LUJÁN . . . WELCOME JOHN PAUL II ... THE POPE AND PERÓN ARE AS ONE GREAT HEART . . . EVITA IS A SAINT. As it turned out, with more than a million devout Argentines packing the square and streets in front of the shrine, the Peronists were lost in the crowd...
...loyalty to the Crown with spiritual loyalty to the Pope. Though the Vatican never withdrew its anathema against the Crown, this year's diplomatic recognition relegates it to history's dustbin. Catholics regained full citizenship rights in 1829, the English hierarchy was re-established in 1850, and devout Catholics were allowed to graduate from Oxford and Cambridge by 1871. In this historical context, British Catholics were as suspicious of Anglicans (not just in persecuted Ireland but throughout the British Isles) as Anglicans were of Rome...
...people in the park have hope, at least while they are singing. The hopes lies in their fellowship, a solidarity among devout elderly ladies and their irreverent grandchildren not choreographed for 700,000 living rooms. The food that the minister has located probably will not feed all the hungry listening in the park. But its presence shows that he feels that the church must provide for the community. Though strangers perhaps to each other, the people are together, behind the chain-link fence...
McNaught, an author, lecturer and columnist told the audience of about 150 of his problems growing up as a homosexual with devout Catholic beliefs...
Kennedy, 51, had been an efficient and unflamboyant San Diego County prosecutor for 23 years before taking the federal job. He is intensely devout, both as a Roman Catholic and a conservative Republican. Says one colleague: "He may have felt his credibility was on the line with this car-theft case, and he couldn't live with the idea that there was a crook out there who wasn't being caught." To Kennedy, explains another coworker, "black is black, white is white, and good should triumph over evil...