Word: faithful
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...council is still broken and Reform Committee proposals are currently collecting dust. This is bad faith on the part of the council, which promised participants that the council would vote on their suggestions. The council ought once again to turn introspective in order to redeem itself. Taking a lead from the Reform Committee, we have some suggestions about where to start...
That polysyllabilistic panjandrum of the American right, William F. Buckley Jr., is even more devoted to his Roman Catholic faith than to his conservative political principles. Yet writing about that faith has not been easy for him. In 1992 he started but soon abandoned a book with the working title Why I Am a Catholic. Now Buckley has tried again--and his discomfort in writing about something so personal as religious belief is still apparent...
Nearer, My God (Doubleday; 313 pages; $24.95) is less a formal "autobiography of faith," as the subtitle has it, than a pastiche: part memoir, part commentary on religious issues past and present. No theologian by his own admission, Buckley has relied on others to do that heavy hitting. He submitted questions about the ordination of women, for example, to a "forum" of four Catholic converts, two of them priests, and prints their answers at length. On a more theoretical problem--how hell and eternal punishment are compatible with God's mercy--he cribs copiously from Difficulties (1934), an exchange...
...Buckley sees it, four main issues in the church today "strain reason as well as faith": clerical celibacy, women priests, contraception, and the indissolubility of marriage. He accepts Rome's position on all four, although he is troubled by the reasoning behind the ban on birth control, hopes for a tad more flexibility on remarriage after divorce, and sees no doctrinal barrier to the eventuality of a married priesthood (which exists in the church's Eastern rite...
...question the sincerity and strength of faith of both the Promise Keepers and the Taliban leaders in Afghanistan? But the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Obviously, many of the Promise Keepers members feel castrated. Where do these feelings of impotence come from? Can they stem from the fragmentation of the family, the downgrading and elimination of jobs, employment and retirement insecurity, dependency on wives as co-breadwinners and the polarizing effects brought about by radical feminists who are using their much needed movement to galvanize hatred toward all males? BERNARD WISSER Alkmaar, the Netherlands...