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...police officers -- were wounded today after Israeli troops opened fire on a vehicle at the Erez crossing. Another PLO officer was wounded in a second clash nearby. In every incident, both sides insisted that the other had provoked the violence. The mounting violence threatens talks begun this week in Cairo over the question of extending Palestinian autonomy...
...coming decades. One Spanish critic said the Pope had "become a traveling salesman of demographic irrationality." Says dissident Swiss theologian Hans Kung: "This Pope is a disaster for our church. There's charm there, but he's closed-minded." The British Catholic weekly the Tablet summed up Cairo, "Never has the Vatican cared less about being unpopular than under Pope John Paul...
...Cairo perfectly crystallized reciprocal conundrums: the problem of the Pope in the modern world and the problem the Pope has with the modern world. The conflict boils down to different paths of reason and standards of truth. In Crossing the Threshold of Hope, John Paul locates the source of the great schism between faith and logic in the writings of the 17th century French philosopher Rene Descartes, particularly his assertion "Cogito ergo sum" (I think; therefore I am). The Pope points out that Descartes's formulation turned on its head St. Thomas Aquinas' 13th century pronouncement that existence comes before...
...Guinea, Australia, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, where the Archbishop of Manila is in open conflict with the country's Protestant President over population control. The Pope is also laying strategy for the 1995 U.N. World Conference on Women in Beijing, which figures to be a replay of Cairo. In June, he plans to meet with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church. John Paul has long spoken of mending the breach between the Roman and Eastern churches that became final in - 1054. The Berlin Wall, put up in 1961, came down 11 years into...
...population summit in Cairo was predictably fractious and confrontational -- but it ended in surprising harmony. The 180 participating countries approved a plan calling for governments to earmark $17 billion annually by the year 2000 to support family planning, health care and programs that empower women, on the amply documented proposition that women who control their own lives tend to have fewer children. Even so, if there is no better follow-up to Cairo than there was to the Earth Summit in Rio, don't expect the population bomb to be defused anytime soon...