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...made advances on all of these fronts in 1994. The Catechism of the Catholic Church appeared in English translation, the first such comprehensive document issued since the 16th century. It clearly summarizes all the essential beliefs and moral tenets of the church. Some Catholics believe it will be the most enduring landmark of John Paul's papacy. In June, John Paul oversaw the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Holy See and Israel, ending a tense standoff that had existed ever since...
...Pope released an apostolic letter in which he set to rest, for the foreseeable future, the question of the ordination of women. His answer, in brief, was no. The document disappointed and outraged many Catholic women and men; even some sympathetic to the Pope felt that his peremptory tone, his strict argument from precedent, i.e., that Christ appointed only males as his Apostles, represented a missed opportunity to teach, to explain an exclusionary policy that contemporary believers find outmoded or beyond understanding...
...would be nice to have a document that we could leave to the new house committee so that they can avoid the scandals that we've had this year," Galanek said...
...obtained by TIME, "we should recognize that nothing about Bosnia is worth a serious split with our NATO allies . . . We are at the point where we risk losing not only Bosnia but ((also)) NATO." An Administration official who read an intelligence report based on electronic eavesdropping said the document had advised that Paris might be purposely inflaming tensions over Bosnia to drive a wedge between Britain and the U.S. France, according to the intelligence analysis, would like to see NATO broken up and replaced by a European security alliance...
...days after the furor died down over recent plans to issue a stamp showing the 1945 Hiroshima mushroom cloud, a newly-declassified document shows the U.S. had contingency plans to drop the atomic bomb on China in the 1950s. The National Archives today released an April 17, 1954 memo (signed by the secretary to the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Eisenhower Administration), which spells out plans to bomb China if the Chinese violated the tenuous truce that ended the Korean War. "In light of the enemy capability to launch a massive ground offensive, U.S. air support operations, including...