Word: devoutely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President must be tough, shrewd, and even ruthless to be effective, writes Professor Martin, his church affiliation is unimportant only so long as he is "predictably nominal in his faith." Religion, he adds, only "becomes a relevant and divisive issue whenever the candidate shows himself to be devout in his faith...
Professor Martin does not say how his thesis would apply in the cases of France's President Charles de Gaulle and Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, both of whom are notably devout Christians, and notably not weak leaders. The editors of Christian Century felt bound to offer a rebuttal of their own contributor. "We sympathize with (Martin's respect for competence in politics," they wrote, "but cannot accept his implication that vital faith necessarily constitutes an insuperable obstacle to such competence." The editors insist that though Lincoln was not a churchgoer, he was a devout Christian...
Msgr. De Blanc has certainly embarrassed the members of the Catholic Church with his statement ". . . but I wonder if a devout person should bring someone of another faith into his home, into his family surroundings." How can we hope to spread our faith (a command of Jesus Christ) if we cannot show our non-Catholic friends how we live and how we behave in our homes...
This convenient cultural pattern, so widely accepted by many non-Catholics, may too easily rub off on less devout and intellectual Catholic families...
Protestants and Catholics alike will vote for Nixon, not because he is a devout Protestant, but because he is a great statesman and has already ''stood up to Moscow...