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In imitation of Columbus' first act when he landed in the New World, the frail figure in the scarlet cloak fell to his knees at the foot of the airplane ramp and kissed the concrete. With that dramatic gesture, Paul VI last week became the first Pope to set...
By his trip to Latin America, cabled TIME Correspondent John Shaw, who traveled with the Pope, Paul is trying to devise for the continent's clergy and faithful "a middle way to social progress with justice." He thus hopes to satisfy the radicals without totally alienating the large number...
Oddly Anachronistic. Thus, in his three-day visit, the Pope tried to identify Catholicism more effectively with reform and with various efforts to ease the social ills of a poverty-ridden continent. Whatever his success, the Pope was clearly moved by the opportunity. Speaking in accented but accurate Spanish to...
Education over Violence. Everywhere, Paul tried to sound a call to reconciliation and reform. He advised the new priests to "be able to understand men's concerns and to transform them. not into anger and violence, but into the powerful force of constructive work." At Mosquera, he told the...
Privileged Powers. The question was whether, despite the enthusiasm that his visit evoked, Paul would be able to narrow the tremendous differences that exist between Latin America's two principal blocks of Catholics-the peasants living in subhuman conditions and the ruling elite. These two forces have been in...