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...issued extraordinary apologies for the Inquisition and the Crusades. He rehabilitated Galileo for the "heresy" of espousing the theory that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system. In 1998 he released "We Remember," a much anticipated penance for the Holocaust. Many Jews criticized the document for confining itself to the culpability of individual Christians rather than admitting church complicity and for defending the wartime Pope, Pius XII. That did not prevent them from shedding tears in 2000, when during a trip to the Holy Land, John Paul prayed at Jerusalem's Western Wall without making...
...POWER LINE bloggers who launched the Dan Rather Memogate questions last year are doubting the authenticity of another incendiary document: a talking-points memo, first reported last month by ABC News and the Washington Post, detailing how Republican Senators could use Terri Schiavo to their advantage. Righties, after floating the idea that the unsigned--and letterhead-less--memo could have been "a Democratic dirty trick," were angling for retractions. But ABC and the Post countered that they never said a G.O.P. official wrote the memo, only that it was "circulated among" and "distributed to" Republican Senators...
...Second Vatican Council issued Dignitatis Humanae, commonly referred to as a declaration on religious liberty. But what made this document revolutionary was its total renunciation of the use of coercion in defense of the truth. It overturned a tradition of sanctioned violence that went back to Constantine and St. Augustine. Paul VI made its meaning explicit by going before the U.N. General Assembly to declare, "No more war! War never again!" This was a reversal of Pope Urban II's 1095 call for the Crusades: "God wills...
...U.S.S.R. Political Capital's disclosures include the name of István Csurka, leader of the ultraconservative Hungarian Justice and Life Party. Csurka, 70, told TIME that he was broken while in prison camp following the failed 1956 uprising against communist rule. He said he signed a loyalty document but did not follow through. "The police contacted me but I hid from them. I tried to deceive them," he says. Csurka says the current effort shouldn't focus on alleged small fry like him, but on senior agents he claims now hold posts in today's socialist coalition government. "They...
...legality of the war in Iraq. The review follows increasing pressure on Prime Minister Tony Blair to reveal why the Attorney General, who reportedly questioned the invasion's legality in early March 2003, might have changed his mind and backed the war. Thomas will decide whether the document should remain secret. Open Verdict LEBANON President Emile Lahoud signaled support for an independent investigation into the Feb. 14 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Harari as a U.N. report concluded that Beirut's own inquiry was flawed and inconclusive. The U.N.'s report did not name a culprit in the bombing...