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The new generation of American priests is not discovering St. John Vianney because it simply has nostalgia for what is old, rather because it has a hunger for what perdures.
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In Catholic theology, a substance is ordinarily understood to be a unitary whole of a certain kind that perdures, and thus "subsists," through various activities and changes, which can include the sort of damage that consists in the loss of certain parts.
The new CDF document on ecclesiology Mike L 2007
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In Catholic theology, a substance is ordinarily understood to be a unitary whole of a certain kind that perdures, and thus "subsists," through various activities and changes, which can include the sort of damage that consists in the loss of certain parts.
Archive 2007-07-01 Mike L 2007
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And this "unwritten law" perdures in the minds of many of the people today.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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It was my first grown-up film, and it began my love affair with the movies that perdures to this day.
Diner's Journal 2010
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But in the context of the present discussion, the relevant point is that, while it is possible to complain - and legitimate and necessary to protest - about local "symptoms" of this structural process, of which the Middlesex closure is a shocking example, no more than partial and temporary victories against such systemic philistinism can be won while the structure itself perdures.
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It was my first grown-up film, and it began my love affair with the movies that perdures to this day.
Diner's Journal 2010
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It was my first grown-up film, and it began my love affair with the movies that perdures to this day.
Diner's Journal 2010
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Ubermensch, a type of best - or super-man, perdures within the contemporary Left.
Phi Beta Cons 2009
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SOME of those 'right/left' questions are answered "populist," which is a fairly strong streak in this country -- it perdures from Andy Jackson through today.
Dad29 2009
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