Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anderson's bid is obviously a long shot. He himself concedes that it is an "effort built on faith." Bright and articulate, the Harvard Law School graduate and former foreign service diplomat is little known outside Washington, and his staff consists mainly of a dozen young volunteers...
...seemed to convey always an almost tangible sense of strength and an extraordinary, low-burning joy?joy in adversities endured, joy in the signs of national pride and faith that he saw before him, joy in being a Christian, in being human...
...church far more leeway than most Communist countries, but the Pope and his bishops want fundamental guarantees: freedom to publish books and periodicals, to broadcast, to build churches and name bishops without interference, the opportunity for Christians to earn jobs and degrees and educate their children in the faith without discrimination. The Pope told Gierek that church-state détente in Poland could be "one of the elements in the ethical and international order in Europe and the modern world, an order that flows from respect for the rights of the nation and for human rights...
...Holy Spirit that this Polish Pope?this Slav Pope?should at this precise moment manifest the spiritual unity of Christian Europe? Although there are two great traditions, that of the West and that of the East, to which it is indebted, through both of them Christian Europe professes 'one faith, one baptism, one God and Father...
...Catholic in his diocese, he decided, should have to walk more than 2½ miles to church. Starting in the mid-1960s, his parishioners would secretly assemble small, prefab churches, then put them together overnight without permission. In the morning the authorities would be presented with an act of faith accompli. A day came when the bishop was led off to be fined at the prosecutor's office for his actions, but such a noisy phalanx of Catholic housewives followed along that the harried official finally told the bishop to forget the fine. Said he: "Just get these women...