Word: devouting
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...online furor surrounding the film has raged, leading up to its Aug. 18 premiere- the movie studio recently announced it would not be screening the film for most critics, meaning web speculation will continue to surge until that Friday morning- a devout legion of Snakes fans have already made it the underdog movie sensation of the year...
There is no indication outside the old brick building on Chicago's north side that would tell visitors that they've come upon the home of a devout religious order - merely a sign on a green awning that reads "Midtown Center." Yet this place is the center of activity for a dozen numeraries, between 40 and 50 supernumeraries and about 25 associates. Set on a residential block in a gentrifying neighborhood, the Opus Dei center is made up of a residential unit, offices and classrooms that are all adjacent to the huge church of St. Mary of the Angels...
...bureau and a private bath. A few have desktop computers, but most seem devoid of personal knickknacks. All the rooms are without telephones or TVs, although some members do carry cellphones. Yet you have to look closely to see evidence that you are inside the walls of an intensely devout religious order. Numerary Peter Anglada's chamber has a painting of the Virgin on one wall, a gold-framed print bearing a long Latin inscription on another, and a photo of the prelate of Opus Dei on a third. Other chambers are similarly ornamented, invariably with Catholic-themed...
...While Opus Dei members are devout in their commitment, what separates them from other Catholics is that part of that commitment involves work in the real world, and that work happens outside of a parish context. Many of the fellows are highly educated and well trained. Associate numerary Gil Kaufman is a retired Ph.D. chemist. Calixto Maso is a pathologist. Peter Anglada is an MBA. Francisco Ruiz teaches engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology. Art Thelen is a structural engineer who supervised bridge building in Chicago. Glenn Wilke was an executive at Conagra for twenty years. "We all have...
...challenge that the 20th-century philosopher of modern communication theory Marshall McLuhan would comprehend. The Canadian-born writer, who coined the phrase "the medium is the message," was also a devout Catholic. In one conversation recorded by his wife, McLuhan said: "Christ came to demonstrate God's love for man and to call all men to Him through himself as Mediator, as Medium. And in so doing he became the proclamation of his Church, the message of God to man. God's medium became God's message...