As to the West, which accommodated the authoritarian regimes of the Arab countries, it should not now accommodate religious obscurantism in the name of a new form of pragmatism.

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All art worthy of the name is religious.

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Celestine V, a hermit who founded the religious order that bears his name, was later canonized.

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After the war, the group transformed itself into a lay religious organisation, adopting the name Soka Gakkai (Value-Creation Society), and embracing the faith of the 700-year-old Nichiren Shoshu sect.

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Pope Innocent III who, by 1215, had made a name for himself in attempts to ensure secular leaders were subject to religious jurisdiction, annulled the document within months of it being issued.

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Undeniably Jewish by name and by countenance, Hank Greenberg (1911-86) was not avid in his religious practice.

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"It would be an enormous gesture to name a Latin American pope, " Virginia Garrard-Burnett, a professor of history and religious studies at the University of Texas at Austin, said earlier this week.

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"It would be an enormous gesture to name a Latin American pope, " said Virginia Garrard-Burnett, a professor of history and religious studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

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