Word: godly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...option of love, which is the opposite of escape ... Whatever you make of your life, let it be something that reflects the love of Christ ... Whatever you do, remember that Christ is calling you, in one way or another, to the service of love: the love of God and of your neighbor ... Love demands effort and a personal commitment to the will of God. It means discipline and sacrifice, but it also means joy and human fulfillment. Dear young people: Do not be afraid of honest effort and honest work; do not be afraid of the truth...
...issues, on specific practices by which Roman Catholics differed from others: no meat on Fridays, contraception, obey the Pope. The core in faith must always be recognition of Jesus as Lord, the response of the community in Jesus through faith, hope and charity, the recognition of the power of God's love to ultimately overcome all obstacles, and the promise of the joy and fullness of life...
...executive editor of Commonweal and author of The Neo-Conservatives: Perhaps the Pope's visit will finally convince the media that religion is a serious reality, not only in backward places like Mexico and Iran but also in the U.S. Polls show that 90% of Americans believe in God and pray often, but most of the serious observations about this country are made by the other 10%. Nothing has changed since H.L. Mencken in the way that public commentators look at the reality of religious life...
...Church and other religions, or between Catholics and people of other faiths. It is between religion and humanism, between the idea of a natural moral law and moral relativism. "All of Western law," civilization which was assumes based that on the man is a postulate of creature a of God, natural argues moral Edward Hanify, a Catholic and a Boston lawyer. "The currently ascendant philosophy of humanism has an entirely different view of man: he is an autonomous being, with no external controls. Because Catholics happen to be conspicuous exponents of natural moral law, humanists see the church as their...
...CRITIC John Simon once called the death of Georg Buchner at the age of 24 conclusive proof of the nonexistence of God. Now God has a chance to reestablish himself: Andy Borowitz, who as president of the Lampoon bears responsibility...