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Right-to-life organizations responded to the filing of the new brief with cautious approval. It is a "small but important step," said Douglas Johnson of the National Right to Life Committee. Anti-abortion Evangelist Jerry Falwell was more specific: "I feel this is all the Administration can do until a new court is in place. Hopefully there will be two or more court replacements during the next 3½ years...
...life, no other great figure in the second half of the 20th century seemed to inhabit his role so utterly--yet in so many different ways. There was the itinerant evangelist with the lit-from-within smile, conducting his never-ending crusade. There was the mystic who, as an observer noted, "makes decisions on his knees." There was the subtle geopolitician who refuted Stalin's famous sneer "How many divisions has the Pope?" at the expense of the dictator's heirs. The moral philosopher who lectured at Harvard. And, finally, the suffering servant. "He was a thoroughly, radically committed Christian...
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...first of scores of global pilgrimages that established the exultant rhythm of his papacy. People expected the youngest Pope in 132 years--a 58-year-old outdoorsman described by an Australian newspaper as "built like a rugby front-row forward"--to be energetic. Yet even St. Paul, the archetypal evangelist, might have wondered at John Paul's 1989, a fairly typical year, featuring stops in Madagascar, Reunion, Zambia, Malawi, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, South Korea, Indonesia, East Timor and Mauritius. His visits, especially to the Third World's farthest outposts, projected a sense of a true church universal...
...bipartisan support, such as overhauling Social Security and medical-malpractice laws. But if Frist wants the top half of the '08 ticket, he will need backing from religious conservatives, who have explicitly tied their support to his efforts to get Bush's judges confirmed. "It is the ultimate test," evangelist Pat Robertson said last week at the National Press Club. "[Frist] cannot be a leader and allow Democrats to do what they did in the last session...