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...John Paul's early papacy and to his almost instantaneous rise to heroic status was the very aspect that made his election in 1978 so stunning. Unlike generations of Italian Popes brought up to pronounce on the world's great events yet largely cloistered from them, Karol Wojtyla lived in the early 20th century world about as intensely as it was imaginable to do and still survive it. Born in 1920, as Poland, a once great power, was moving toward its postwar sovereignty after more than a century of bitter subjugation, the army officer's son planned to study...
...book came out against contraception, and Karol Wojtyla went on to draft much of the language in Pope Paul VI's controversial 1968 directive reiterating that church prohibition. (Although many U.S. Catholics have long ignored the ban, some found their anger reignited in the 1990s when the Pope opposed AIDS-containment programs because of their use of condoms.) As Pope, he irritated both abortion-rights and population activists at a 1994 U.N. conference in Cairo by insisting on passing language that stated, "In no case should abortion be promoted as a method of family planning." In 1988 the Pope, despite...
...bells began tolling at 10:37 Saturday night, an hour after he breathed his last. Thus passed Karol Jozef Wojtyla, Vicar of Jesus Christ and head of the billion-member Roman Catholic Church, dead at 84 after a life spent walking in Christ's rugged path...
...press, Fahrenheit 9/11 has made news with its assertions of White House duplicity. But in theaters, the movie can hit home, especially for those who have loved ones in Iraq. Greg Rohwer-Selken, 33, of Ames, Iowa, and his wife Karol are former Army reservists who both volunteered for Afghanistan (but weren't sent). Now Karol is serving in the National Guard in Iraq. After seeing Fahrenheit 9/11 in Des Moines, Rohwer-Selken wipes away tears as he says, "It really made me question why she has to be over there." (The Army and Air Force Exchange Service, which books...
...DIED. KAROL KENNEDY KUCHER, 72, half of the figure-skating duo known as the Kennedy Kids, who became the first American pair to win a world championship when they captured the gold in London in 1950; of pneumonia; in Seattle. The dominant American pair skaters in the years after World War II, Karol and her elder brother Peter won five consecutive U.S. championships, from 1948 to 1952, and a silver medal at the 1952 Winter Olympics...