Word: rigid
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...guidelines are quite rigid for the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to verify what qualifies as the necessary "heroic virtues" for the venerable. But ultimately it is the Pope who decides whether to sign the decree. And though his papacy can sometimes seem by-the-book, certain Benedict decisions must be mined for personal motivations. Joseph Ratzinger was a devout 12-year-old in the heavily Catholic region of Bavaria when Eugenio Pacelli became Pope in 1939. Through his early years as priest and theologian, Ratzinger remained devoted to Pius until the pontiff's death in 1958. A Vatican...
...women and gay priests and bishops, and perhaps attracted by the liturgical and historical links with Catholicism, Benedict's official door-opening is an unexpected godsend that might just allow for the best of both worlds: hanging onto their Anglican culture and parish life while moving under the doctrinally rigid umbrella of Roman orthodoxy...
...then there were concerns raised by the political beliefs that Hasan espoused. "He wore his rigid Islam ideology on his sleeve and weaved it throughout his coursework," says the third classmate. "He would be standing there in uniform pledging allegiance to the Koran...
Douglas E. Henley, CEO and executive vice president of the AAFP, said on Friday that the organization intends to separate funding sources from the content they support, adding, “There’s a thick, rigid firewall between the two” Henley said. He emphasized that the web content would be based on peer-reviewed literature, summarized by internal AAFP staff and outside medical experts...
Douglas E. Henley, CEO and executive vice president of the AAFP, said on Friday that the organization intends to separate funding sources from the content they support, adding, “There’s a thick, rigid firewall between the two” Henley said. He emphasized that the web content would be based on peer-reviewed literature, summarized by internal AAFP staff and outside medical experts...