Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only problem is I lacked a religion about which to broadcast from a bully pulpit. I could have faked all the stuff about God and fire and brimstone and the earth erupting if we lose our faith, but I needed something for my followers to believe in. Therefore, I have organized the Church of Religious Consciousness. Anybody who is conscious can join...and any one who can join can send me spare cash...
...convent to send her two suitcases of clothes; that indicated ignorance of her fate, according to Sister Marie Louise, a former prioress at Echt. Agrees Pinchas Lapide, a Frankfurt Jewish scholar: "Her death was totally involuntary." Although "in her own mind Edith Stein most probably died for her faith," says Renee Grignon, an official of the French Jewish-Christian Friendship Association, "in reality, she died because of her origins." She acknowledged her Jewishness when she wrote after Hitler's pogroms began, "This is the realization of the curse that my people have brought on themselves...
...attention for a Jew who left the faith to join the Catholic Church?" asks Marcel Poorthuis, a spokesman for the Dutch Catholic Council for Israel, of the Stein beatification. "A lack of sensitivity," declares Tullia Zevi, president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities. Asks James Raphael Baaden, an American Jew who lives in London and is writing a book about Edith Stein: How can she be beatified as a Christian martyr if she died...
...Perhaps the key line of dialogue is Higgins' tossed-off confession, "I've never been able to feel really grown-up and tremendous, like other chaps." Says O'Toole: "Eliza from the start yearns to join the social order. Higgins has neither the inclination to fit in nor the faith that...
Critics wonder whether the new clinics are offering better care or merely fancy wrapping. Some question the automatic faith in female staffs. "I'm skeptical," says Feminist Judy Norsigian, co-author of The New Our Bodies, Ourselves, who notes that because male and female physicians receive identical educations, "the women often come out the same." Others point out that the new centers are geared to affluent women, neglecting the old and the poor. And there is concern about whether the clinics are overly accommodating. Leah Dills, 32, who has visited Woman's Care Center in San Francisco at least eight...