Word: faithfully
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...gesture of a hand stroking a beard, which is how Cubans silently refer to their supreme leader, Fidel Castro. The woman down the hall reports regularly to the local block committee about her, says Ana, "because I am not a conformist." She finds peace in her Bible, though her faith has earned her a black mark on the dossier that follows all Cubans from childhood to death...
Bone-thin after four years of declining rations, Mario Caballero, a 52-year- old school administrator in Santiago de Cuba, is one of the older generation whose faith in Fidel is well-nigh religious. If his rhetoric recalls communist dogma of the '50s, it still reflects sentiments deeply etched in the Cuban soul. "Before, our best land was Yankee. The sugar was Yankee. The electric system was Yankee. The phones were Yankee." Never mind that the sugar crop is failing for the second year, that electricity and phones rarely work. "We may be living through a special period," he says...
...brisk pace, crossing over cobblestones to arrive at 9 a.m. at the palazzo that once bore the title of the Roman and Universal Inquisition. Soft-spoken and courteous, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 66, looks too benign to be an inquisitor. But his Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is the Roman Inquisition's latest incarnation, and as the Catholic Church's chief enforcer of dogma, the Cardinal stands in direct succession to the persecutors of Galileo and the compilers of the index of banned books. The weight of history is borne in the attention Ratzinger receives. His staff, which includes...
...document, published last week, laying out the church's stand on interpretations of the Bible. Ratzinger sees his work as showing Catholics the proper way -- and the forbidden way. "I think there is an obligation to protect people, to help them to see this is not our faith...
...from a branch of the Dachau concentration camp. He also remembers seeing Hungarian Jews being shipped to their death. "The abyss of Hitlerism could not be overlooked," he said. The depredations of the officially atheistic regime led to his conviction that religion was crucial to civilization. "Only the Christian faith had the possibility to heal these people and give a new beginning," he says. He was ordained a priest in 1951, and moved on to a brilliant career as a theologian that reached its first peak at the Second Vatican Council...