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...well aware that any tampering with Islamic holy sites in the city could spark the final jihad against Israel ? hence the arrests. "The upside of Jerusalem is that every square foot of the city is holy, for more than one religious tradition," says TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema. "Unfortunately, that?s also its downside...
...relentless evangelizer, taking his ready wit and common touch -- and a telegenic quality unlike any other pope?s -- to nearly every corner of the far-flung but fractured Catholic world. "He?s totally hot-wired the global aspect of the church," says TIME religion writer David Van Biema. "No pope before him has had this kind of wattage...
...Papa face-to-face with El Jefe, quarrelling (rather adroitly) not so much with Castro?s vestigial brand of communism but with the low state of Cubans under it. "When was the last time a pope really seemed like a major player on the world stage?" asks Van Biema. John Paul II is, and his Vatican has become, worldly-wise and widely heard...
...David Van Biema. With reporting by Flora Tartakovsky/New York
...Vatican has framed this trip as an attempt to bridge the gap between the haves and have-nots in the Americas," says TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema. And President Clinton will find that the legendary crusader against communism has some harsh words for capitalism too. In his Ecclesia in America exhortation signed at the weekend, the pope denounced "unbridled consumerism" and a "system (that) considers profits and the law of the market as its only parameters." But to a U.S. President who considers the humming economy his greatest achievement, curbing consumerism will hardly seem like a good idea...