Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...acting in good faith, and I did notthink [of the parallelisms] at the time," Woodallsaid. "I hope I can succeed, and I don't feel thatI've lost credibility...
Republicans have crowed all year that Clinton's is doomed to become a failed presidency. A few of the more shameless Senate leaders have taken this as an article of faith; Clinton was still moving furniture into the White House when Bob Dole and Phil Gramm started to spend their free time in New Hampshire...
...ready to let in new things. But suddenly he saw these new ideas were connected to violence and a destruction of the order of what came before. He was simply no longer able to bear it." Says the Cardinal of that time: "I had the feeling that to be faithful to my faith, I must also be in opposition to interpretations of the faith that are not ((true)) interpretations but oppositions...
...societies. "It is essential to have common ground that can be attested to in moral and religious matters." The church's teachings, therefore, have to be unbending, Ratzinger believes. "Everyone, thank God, is free to decide whether or not he is able and willing to subscribe to the Catholic faith with responsibility before God and his conscience. If I come to the conclusion that I can no longer support this set of beliefs, then it is a matter of honesty to declare this and draw the consequences." If a theologian needs prodding to come to that realization, Ratzinger is happy...
...Cardinal likes to explain his faith through the story of one of his theology professors, a man who questioned the thinking behind the church's 1950 declaration that the Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven was an infallible tenet. "He said, 'No, this is not possible -- we don't have a foundation in Scripture. It is impossible to give this as a dogma.' " This led the professor's Protestant friends to hope they had a potential convert. But the professor immediately reaffirmed his abiding Catholicism. "No, at this moment I will be convinced that the church is wiser than...