Tradition
TRADITION. The word tradition comes from the Latin noun traditio (handing over), which derives from the verb tradere (hand over, deliver). Traditio corresponds closely to the Greek paradosis...
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Should individuals break traditions or laws that conflict with their own personal beliefs? Perhaps, some of the greatest leaders of the worlds,could best answer this question, such as Mahatma Gandhi,...
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Polka music rolls over the crowded pews of St. Joseph Catholic Church, reverberating off the sandstone walls and columns as parishioners celebrate 168 years of faith and German heritage in Jasper, ...
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Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday praised a recent demonstration in Rome against proposed legislation granting legal rights to unmarried couples, including gay ones, saying it showed that traditional f...
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Republican Mike Huckabee said Friday that marriage shouldn't be treated as an experiment in response to questions about whether Vice President Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter should have the right t...
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The modern presidency operates as if by script, with carefully chosen crowds, painstakingly shaped words and backdrops picked for just the right effect.As in life, so, too, in death.The funeral of ...
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Tradition often trumps the trendy during the Christmas season. People send traditional Christmas cards through the mail far more than they send greeting cards by e-mail. Most people think it's OK t...
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Bar MitzvahThis rite of passage usually occurs when a Jewish boy reaches the age of 13. The words Bar Mitzvah translate to “son of the commandment,” and refer to a time when a child rea...
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With no tradition of leaving cookies for Santa, no church to attend and no expectation of presents in the morning, Christmas Eve used to hold little to look forward to for non-Christians _ until th...
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History doesn't weigh heavily on most college basketball stars in this era of transfers, coaching turnover and teenage pros.Yet Arron Afflalo and Roderick Wilmont aren't like most stars. Both the U...
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