Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steelworkers' union, the President said that they "must find" a quick way to settle the nine-week-old shutdown. He was plainly irritated by the fact that both sides were merely going through the motions of negotiating. Demanded the President: "Halfhearted bargaining is not enough. Intensive, uninterrupted, good-faith bargaining with a will to make a responsible settlement is required...
...remaining 60 per cent who answered the poll, including the convert, seem to be orthodox in their faith. To begin with they practice their religion. They also agree with the Church on issues of Catholic doctrine (for instance, they unanimously affirm that "God is just"), yet they vary among themselves on all matters of opinion...
...orthodox Roman Catholics differ in their judgments about Harvard's "challenge" to their faith. One half of the staunch Catholics have never "reacted either partially or wholly" against the Church, but about an equal number affirm there was a time when their views "could fairly have been called 'agnostic' or 'atheistic.'" Generalizations for the Catholics at Harvard are thus difficult to draw...
...Church acknowledges that the most tested faith may be the strongest, that people may grow spiritually under tension; but the Church has no faith in strain per se. And certainly a continuous process of questioning will not in itself appear as a positive good, either to the Catholic Church or to Catholics...
...themselves. Too often they retreat from discussions of religion; they offer a catechism answer, or the excuse "I really haven't had time to read up on this yet." It is assumed they don't think for themselves about religion. Certainly at some point the individual's act of faith becomes a distinguishing factor--Credo ut intelligam, I believe that I might understand--but up to this point explanation is surely possible, and for that matter so is defense. Fifteen of the Catholics questioned had periods of reaction against Catholicism; some at least of the others have examined their religious...