Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next-time-round." Readers of Heaney--or, for that matter, of Dante or of T.S. Eliot--are free to disagree with his beliefs or the lack thereof. What no one can deny is the power of the words he has found to bridge the disjunctions of his life and faith. As he wrote in "The Harvest Bow," "The end of art is peace...
...Doyle for allegedly forging a judge's name on a warrant. These are the sort of rogue-cop tricks Fuhrman boasted about in his interviews with screenwriter Laura Hart McKinny. Yet on the day of the O.J. verdict, when Chief Williams commented on the public's obvious loss of faith in his department, he could muster nothing better than the police world's hoariest cliche: "The few bad apples that came out in the trial," he said, "are not reflective of the L.A.P.D...
...Pope, however, has something very powerful going for him. Although his particular opinions may strike the vast majority of Americans as unrelentingly conservative, it is patently obvious that John Paul II actually believes what he says. The integrity of his faith and the purity of his conviction are beyond question...
...Pope has in turn accepted the responsibility to speak to, and on behalf of, all people of faith. Although he does not shy away from the nuances of Catholic theology, his message to the American people was more catholic than Catholic...
...according to the TIME/CNN poll, to put the dictates of conscience ahead of Vatican doctrines, particularly in matters of sexual behavior. The paradox of U.S. Catholicism today rests precisely in this freethinking fractiousness among believers, who nonetheless continue to find common ground and fulfillment in the practice of their faith. Some of them advocate change; others resist it. But most have by now realized that change is inevitable in the U.S. church despite the best efforts of John Paul to hold it in check. Demographics, immigration, the allure of secular U.S. culture--all these forces and more are reshaping...