Word: faithful
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Throughout their country's heartbreaking history of being partitioned, conquered, occupied and finally reduced to a satellite, the Poles have clung tenaciously to the Roman Catholic Church, not only as their faith, but also as the most enduring symbol of their fervent nationalism. Almost the first thing that Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka did when he came to power after the anti-Soviet uprisings of 1956 was to release Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski from detention and give to Poland, which is 95% Catholic, a degree of religious freedom unknown in any other Communist nation. That was a concession...
Discussing the University of Moscow, a "monument of faith and conviction of the Russian people in education," Hunt called the facilities there "among the finest I have ever seen--like a private club...
Intrigued by the Israeli controversy over what is a Jew (TIME, July 28), wily, white-thatched Humorist Harry Hershfield, on a Jerusalem visit, supplied his own definition: "Someone with courage, faith, stamina and a sense of humor." His hoary example? "A philanthropist comes to the Negev and sees this poor rabbi in a shabby synagogue and asks him: 'Rabbi, how much do you make here?' The rabbi says: 'Five dollars a week.' 'But how can you live on that?' asks the philanthropist, and the rabbi answers: 'Lucky thing is that...
...widely prevalent and intellectually debilitating relativism" of American life, writes Presbyterian William Lee Miller, Yale Divinity School professor, religion is being spiritually sapped. For Americans religion is apt to be "the belief in believing, the faith in faith"-exemplified by the radio program called This I Believe, which had "plenty of 'believe' and quite a bit of 'I' but not very much of 'this.' " There is an inclination to hold almost all positions to be equally valuable and true...
...shallow and implicitly compulsory common creed ... It is epitomized in the patriotic-religious pronouncements of the President and the Joint Chiefs' effort to formulate an ideology ('militant liberty') for us all." It is "a religion-in-general, superficial and syncretistic, destructive of the profounder elements of faith...