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...start to walk back to the car with the translator, the implication of what has just happened hits me. Oh, my God. It's going to look like I was trying to shoot down U.S. planes! I plead with him, "You have to be sure those photographs are not published. Please, you can't let them be published." I am assured it will be taken care of. I don't know what else...
Having appointed all but three of the 117 Cardinals who will choose his successor, John Paul, by sheer longevity, has assured that the church will deviate little immediately from his doctrinal course. He would have understood this as part of God's design. In his memoir Gift and Mystery, he makes a telling observation regarding the period in the 1940s when he attended a secret and illegal school for priests. "I could have been arrested any day and taken away to a concentration camp," he wrote later. "Sometimes I would ask myself: so many young people...
...PROTESTANT ACCEPTANCE OF MARY reflects a long-held Roman Catholic feeling that God the Father also has a feminine side. Humanity longs for a parent God who is not only a father but also a mother. The Marian movement among Protestants is very welcome. It represents an openness. Perhaps we will realize that religious faiths all contain essentially the same truths...
...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...
...Terri Schiavo, once a private, ordinary woman, had no choice about whether her death would be a passion play for an audience caught in an argument over when life begins and ends. The Pope, a very public and extraordinary man, made sure his message was clear: that life is God's alone to give--and to take...