Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When tens of thousands of Roman Catholics go, from every land, to a Eucharistic Congress it is not to quibble over prayer-books, nor to hold intra-denominational forensics over matters of faith or morals, nor to establish the status of the ape in history. The Catholics gather for prayer. There can be nothing controversial about a eucharistic congress: at journalistic best it provides a spectacle, is "good theatre...
...United States were dry long before the war and that the dry Federal Act was but the national and natural expression of that dry local option majority. The people of these same districts are still dry and are not going to change constitution or legislation until they have lost faith in Prohibition as a remedy for the liquor evil. I believe that day will arrive, but I do not think it has arrived...
...party in power, of representatives of all opposition factions-a thing unheard of up to now in Mexico. "My advice," he continued, "is based on my conviction that admitting into Congress representatives from reactionary groups, even from clerical reactionaries should not alarm true revolutionaries,* because if we all have faith, as I have, that our new ideas are now shared by the great majority of the Mexican people . . .then we must know that the electoral districts in which political or clerical reactionaries might obtain a victory over men representing the advanced social movement in Mexico must be for a long...
Devil worshippers were glad: The Roerichs found a Buddhism twisted topsy-turvy, the black faith of Bon Po. They worship demons, hate Buddhists, have their peculiar saints with a central, legendary protector similar to Buddha. The swastika is one of their symbols...
...Other pious beliefs: no house in which blessed palms are kept will be struck by lightning; holy water will disperse devils; those whose throats are blessed on the Feast of St. Blase will be immune to throat diseases. Pious beliefs are not to be confused with Articles of Faith...