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...fact have fired at least one pistol shot at the Pontiff before fleeing from St. Peter's Square. But for the past four years, the shadowy Oral Celik, 25, has remained on the loose, his whereabouts a mystery. Says one Italian official involved in the investigation of the papal shooting: "We know nothing...
...Swiss have proceeded independently of the Italian investigation of the papal shooting, which, beginning in May, will bring Agca and seven accused coconspirators to trial in Rome. Agca, who has already been convicted of his part in the shooting, will be retried in light of new evidence of a conspiracy. Italian prosecutors plan to try Celik in absentia...
...Although papal authority has emerged as the overriding issue, there are also important debates about church involvement in contemporary social matters. John Paul has led the way, denouncing economic injustice and insisting on the rights of the downtrodden. Taking their lead from the Pontiff, American bishops are issuing strong moral stands on their nation's nuclear arms strategy, the U.S. economic system and the evil of abortion. Bishops in Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Uganda, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and other lands have boldly denounced human rights abuses by their governments. In South Africa, white Archbishop Denis Hurley will go on trial...
...face of criticism that the Pope is turning back the clock to precouncil days, one of his closest advisers declares that this is a misinterpretation of papal aims. John Paul, says this observer, looks to the future, viewing his mandate in terms of three core concepts. They are integrality, identity and clarity: the integrality of the Christian message; the identity of the priests and nuns who present it; and, above all, clarity that will let everyone know exactly what the church stands...
...male orders, because its members were too frequently challenging church policy. He later installed his own temporary administration at Jesuit headquarters. Though the order is on its own again, it is not yet clear how much new Superior General Peter-Hans Kolvenbach will bend the society to the papal will. John Paul's strictures do not seem to have discouraged vocations: six years ago the worldwide total of candidates for the priesthood was 61,000; in 1982 it had risen...