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- proper noun Roman mythology
Roman goddess oftrust andloyalty . Her Greek equivalent was Pistis. - proper noun astronomy 37 Fides, the
asteroid .
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Examples
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Fr. Jaki magnificently walks the lines of faith and reason as John Paul II outlined in Fides et Ratio.
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It is not surprising, in Fides et Ratio, that John Paul II said that all men are in their own way natural philosophers.
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It is not surprising, in Fides et Ratio, that John Paul II said that all men are in their own way natural philosophers.
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In 1998 John Paul II issued an encyclical called Fides et Ratio which may be regarded as the charter of the Thomism of the third millennium.
Saint Thomas Aquinas McInerny, Ralph 2005
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Abstract qualities, let us note, are usually feminine in Latin, and I think it is not improbable that abstractions such as Fides and Salus, which were deified at a very early period at Rome, may have reached divinity by attachment to some god from whom they subsequently became again separated. [
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Bona Fides: Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominee as the sperm-donor in "The Kids Are Alright"; Catskills resident concerned about keeping the water supply potable.
Celebvocate: Mark Ruffalo voices caution on gas drilling The Reliable Source 2011
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And each of the Vatican media that are represented on the news portal will retain their independent sites as well: Vatican Radio, the newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Vatican Television Center, the Vatican press office and information service and the Fides missionary news agency.
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And each of the Vatican media that are represented on the news portal will retain their independent sites as well: Vatican Radio, the newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Vatican Television Center, the Vatican press office and information service and the Fides missionary news agency.
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The nationalization idea has been discarded because the unions don't want any change, Hector Cordova , Bolivia's vice minister of mining development, told Radio Fides late Tuesday.
Bolivia's Plan to Nationalize Mines Hits Snag Shane Romig 2011
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The name "Getreu" is a literal translation of "Fides", and refers to St. Fides (Foy) of Agen, whose relics are kept in the Abbey of Ste.
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