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...time of John Paul's election, Catholicism was still trying to discern how expansively to interpret the modernizing reforms commenced at Vatican II. The Pope pledged that the council's resolutions would guide his agenda, and some Americans hoped he might promote ideas of greater lay autonomy (under the banner of individual conscience) and hierarchical openness (collegiality). He did not. As it turned out, he favored only the "most exact execution" of the council's directives, rebuffing not only traditionalists who derogated it but also those who saw it as a blueprint for church democracy. For all his support...
With the information they collected, the two teams directly observed the temperatures on the two planets and examined each planet’s brightness in different colors of light, allowing them to discern the presence of molecules such as carbon monoxide...
...told you in countless verbal settings, without the rational distance that writing grants, I’ll tell you again: Blur is ten times the band that Oasis is. You rank among Brit-philes of the highest order, but your ability to discern the better band between these two leads to doubt about the accuracy of your critical taste...
Morris also said Harvard might not be able to discern which books are copyrighted because of varying copyright regulations in different countries...
From the data, researchers were able to discern that men who exercised the most experienced a 50 to 60 percent lower risk of developing Parkinson’s disease than those who were not active. The type of exercise was not a factor into this risk reduction...