Word: worshipfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complaints about treatment of Catholics. Gorbachev responded directly to several of the Pope's requests. Last year Lithuania's two leading bishops were returned to head dioceses after a combined 53 years of internal exile, and the cathedral in Vilnius, previously used as an art museum, was restored for worship. This year the Belorussian republic got its first bishop in 63 years. That paved the way for Archbishop Angelo Sodano, who oversees the Vatican's foreign relations, to make the arrangements for Gorbachev's historic visit to the Holy...
These concessions to Catholicism are only part of Gorbachev's religious liberalization. Television is broadcasting worship services, and religious art is openly displayed. Last month the Orthodox Eucharist was celebrated in the 15th century Assumption Cathedral, inside the Kremlin, for the first time since...
Gorbachev addressed Pope John Paul II as "your Holiness" during their meeting. He said people "have a right to satisfy their spiritual needs," and pledged swift adoption of a new religious law guaranteeing freedom of worship...
...many disagreed. "At this place they worship diversity as a god," said Adam M. Jones '93, a resident of Holworthy Hall. "Diversity is not an end in itself. I don't think that having a lot of different people in your house is necessarily beneficial. You just have a house with more cliques...
...long ago, Christians who were homosexual devoted much of their energy to cloaking that fact. Today not only have many of them come out of the closet, but they are also staging rallies, disrupting worship services and aggressively demanding church endorsement of their life-styles. For gay liberationists, nothing would better epitomize moral acceptance than for the churches to ordain open, practicing homosexuals as clergy. The result is a bitterly fought battle over the acceptance of gay ministers now being waged in both the Roman Catholic Church and mainline Protestant groups...