Not only because the challenges facing mankind, and the church, are more diffuse than before, and at least as formidable but also because John Paul's charisma, even if it could be reproduced, would not suffice to tackle them.For hundreds of millions of Catholics, their spiritual leader's huge role in history is a source of legitimate pride.
It is worth asking whether such distinction between necessary and unnecessary projects is too sharp: there was a sense in which the trireme, a noble achievement of human technē (art or craft), was an object of legitimate pride, which might have its aesthetic aspect.
Howard Hawks took legitimate pride in a certain professionalism, but "artist" and "work of art" were alien terms for him.
In fact, "Italy inspires U.S". is the slogan we have chosen to best encapsulate the meaning of the Year of Italian Culture in the U.S. What we want to express, unassumingly but with legitimate pride, is that Italy is more than a country: it is a lifestyle.
LOUD RUTHERFORD'S progress report of the Academic Assistance Council in a letter to the Times of November 16 is a statement in which the whole academic body of Great Britain may take legitimate pride.
Afghanistan needs to renew its sense of identity after so many years of conflict and its cultural heritage provides one source of legitimate pride.
"With legitimate pride, the Yugoslav people are going to take their rightful place in the concert of nations," said the French ambassador, Jean-David Levitte, to the Assembly, speaking on behalf of the European Union.
St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School recalls, with legitimate pride, that among medals attached to the foundation, one, instituted in 1897, was in honour of Sir William Lawrence (a colleague in his day of Abernethy), surgeon at St . Bartholomews from 1824 until 1865, and president of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1846 and in 1855.
And I would like to recall that even right after the war, which brought our people both the legitimate pride of victory and immeasurable grief along with the natural hatred of those who had caused it, the Soviet Union was opposed to the partitioning of Germany.
We take legitimate pride in seeing how our founding documents have been the models for many new nations.
