Catholicism's resilience has always depended both on the power of the pontiff to sustain unity and safeguard doctrine and on the power of the Catholic faith itself to survive leaders who are wrongheaded, incompetent, senile or corrupt.
The coalition of parties that defeated him has made a promising start, but it will need sustained unity and help from the West to solve the many problems Mr. Meciar left behind.
Even his long-time protector, Ratu Josefa Iloilo, the president, who is in poor health, refused to rubber-stamp his quirky citation of a "doctrine of necessity .To consolidate the coup, Commodore Bainimarama needs to sustain unity within the armed forces.
In such a scenario, it's "hard to sustain unity, to sustain dynamism".
But sustaining that unity is extremely difficult, and becomes even more so when one segment of the population is willing to give its life to protect Americans while the vast majority go on with their lives without making any sacrifice of their own.
We care for this tenuous American union when "We the People" of this republic engage in the debates that are essential for sustaining the unity of our communities, our states, and our nation.
"I don't think we can sustain that unity of effort and achieve our objectives in Afghanistan without making this change," he said.
Despite decades as one of Israel's most polarizing figures, Mr. Sharon has managed to sustain a unity government with broad national support.
They will see that the harmony or coherence of their psychological attitudes makes them good, that each of their attitudes is good insofar as it is part of a coherent set, and that their actions are good insofar as they sustain the unity in their souls (cf. 443e).
"But it was not like rallies for reproductive rights or gay rights". "Often without unifying issues, it is difficult to sustain that unity," he said.
A non-sectarian creed that makes use of sacred symbols, rituals, holidays, heroes, martyrs and myths, civil religion, Bellah indicated, helps secure and sustain national unity.
