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Consistently, John Paul was easier on groups outside Catholicism than he was on his own flock. He never ceased in his efforts to achieve some reconciliation with the Orthodox Christian tradition that parted with Roman Catholicism in the 11th century. In 1986 he gathered an extraordinary rainbow of religious leaders, from the Dalai Lama and the Archbishop of Canterbury to Sikh clerics and Zoroastrian priests, in the Italian town of Assisi, despite objections by Christian ultraconservatives. He was the first Pope to visit a mosque. But his most persistent and eloquent outreach was to Jews. At Vatican II, Wojtyla supported...
Over time, it became clear that the Pope's world view was considerably distanced from U.S. attitudes, many of which he found annoying. Dismayed by what had been called the cafeteria Catholicism of a flock that continued to attend Mass while largely ignoring much of what he preached, he grumbled that "you cannot pick and choose." Conversely, liberals in the U.S. and Europe came to see the Pontiff as a gloomy authoritarian whose ideology was a raft of contradictions--the doctor of philosophy who wanted to limit intellectual discourse, the vigorous advocate for human rights who defined homosexuality...
...Heritage Museum last week, stately stone Buddhas commingle with Greek gods and goddesses, an Iranian prince, and a bare-chested warrior with a rosy complexion and deep blue eyes. A dragon-edged jade disk vies for attention against vases of swirling Roman glass, Byzantine gold coins and a curious flock of tiny wooden geese that could almost pass for miniatures of the sculptures of Henry Moore. If not for the captions to remind us where the motley 300 objects on display were unearthed, it might be easy to forget that the subject of the show is China...
...beautiful late morning last May when Richard Hawley, headmaster at University School in Cleveland, Ohio, saw the flock of mothers entering the building, eager and beaming. "I ask what brings them to our halls," he recalls. "They tell me that this is the last day the seniors will be eating lunch together at school and they have come to watch. To watch their boys eat lunch? I ask. Yes, they tell me emphatically. At that moment, a group of lounging seniors spot their mothers coming their way. One of them approaches his mother, his hands forming an approximation...
Watching Pastor Brashear talk to his flock, I began to understand why he would have so much success while mainline Protestant congregations were failing. Brashear keeps track of a lot of his parishioners. You got the sense he knew who hadn’t been to church in a while, and he probably had some sense of what each churchgoer was doing outside the church’s walls. And Brashear wasn’t just asking his congregants to live inoffensive lives and come back next week. He wanted them out in the community bringing in new members. Mainline...