Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meet with students vindicates the rhetoric of protesters concerned with the closed-door administrative structure of the University. How patronizing of our administrators to insist that they be above a one-time dialogue with their student constituency. At a minimum, such a meeting would be a gesture of good faith--a gesture that would show that Bok's appearance last spring at a question-answer session on divestment was a step toward dialogue, not an isolated attempt to appease student concerns...
...office. She announced that legislative elections would be held next May 11. At midweek government negotiators reopened talks with Communist rebels, an Aquino initiative that Enrile has sharply criticized. Only one day earlier, Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin of Manila had publicly endorsed Aquino's peace feelers. Said he: "Our faith will tell us to give peace a chance...
RESPONSIBLE EDITORS, therefore, must suppress their Pavlovian impulses long enough to ask some serious questions: Is the issue they are presented inherently newsworthy? What is the credibility and good faith of the source? Do his or her charges deserve a front-page lead story, or will a blurb on the inside suffice? Does a controversy actually exist, or are they being manipulated into precipitating...
...Pope was well aware of such concerns. "Certainly we cannot pray together, namely, to make a common prayer," he explained, "but we can be present while others pray." That, in fact, is what occurred. During the morning, each faith met for separate devotions in and around Assisi, and when all groups later gathered in the piazza, no interreligious rite was used; individual delegates gave their own invocations...
...years since is that humanity in all its ordinariness and contrariness is more corrosive to the totalitarianism ideal than heroism. There is too much to control. Not even the technology of repression can keep up with all the private wants and longings that move people to everything from religious faith to sullen cynicism...