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Faithful, The
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05769a.htmThose who have bound themselves to a religious association, whose doctrine they accept, and into whose rites they have been initiated. Among Christians the term is applied to those who have been fully initiated by baptism and, regularly speaking, by confirmation.
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