Word: piousness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...photographs reveal the younger O?Grady to have been a handsome man, and some of the victims? testimony hints at a kind of insinuating charm about the man. You can see how he might worm his way into the good graces of simple, pious people, for whom unquestioning faith is a ruling factor in their lives. Another priest, a church historian, points out that the habits of obedience, especially in a hierarchical religion like Catholicism, are particularly hard to break. And O?Grady was the kind of man who is capable of seducing a mother in order to gain easier...
...week's sleek party people had become the next week's pious Muslim fasters. These young people belong to a type that defines urban, middle-class Iran. They are sophisticated, adaptable and hyper-social, devoted as much to dating and pop music as they are to observing Shi'ite rituals...
...justified. Andriy Sukhodub Dundee, Scotland Pope Benedict XVI's claim that the words he quoted from a 14th century Byzantine Emperor do not reflect his own views raises a most puzzling question: Why then did he quote them? If the Pope's intentions had been more pious than political, he would have sought a positive way to engage Muslims in dialogue. Esra Tasneem Aslam Chennai, India None of the Abrahamic faiths - Islam, Christianity and Judaism - are toothless religions. The Pope should recall the Crusades, when the church used the same sword to further its cause. The Bible says, "First take...
...About 65 miles south of Tehran, there lies Jamkaran, a tiny, run-down mosque which in the past 20 years has been designated as the spot the Mahdi went into concealment. Pious Iranians, with government help, have transformed the site into a massive devotional center for the Mahdi, and on weekends tens of thousands of Iranian pilgrims peer down the well where legend says he is hiding. Some visitors claim to have seen the Mahdi there, and report things he allegedly said to them. More commonly, people write him letters asking for blessing, and drop them down the well...
...neighborhood. Everyone blamed the dearth of fresh bread on the government's over-generous aid to the Shi`ites of Lebanon, displaced in the recent fighting between Israel and Hizballah. I should point out that my neighborhood is split between religious and secular families, and that the most pious of the bread-deprived were just as quick to shake their heads with resentment. No one said "let them eat cake," but it came pretty close...