Word: papally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military regime's "dirty war" against left-wing terrorism during the late 1970s. The junta, for its part, had returned at least a few beloved ones, if not desaparecidos, to their families, having released 128 prisoners outright and 116 more on parole in an amnesty honoring the papal visit. The government denied that those released were political prisoners, but all had been held without charge at the pleasure of the junta...
...Papal fever, in any case, had begun to overshadow political fervor for many Argentines in the hours before the Pope's arrival. The patriotic euphoria of the early weeks of the war was all but submerged in a vast national outpouring of piety and sheer excitement over the Pope's visit, the first ever made by a Pontiff to Argentina...
Archbishop Runcie, paying broad tribute to his departed papal guest as "a great Christian teacher," believes that as a result of John Paul's visit Britain's denominational divisions must be seen in a new light: "in the context of a common determination to make Christ's voice heard above the noise generated by a selfish and self-indulgent [British and Western] culture." He believes that the friendship and Christian joy exemplified by John Paul's visit could strengthen the prospects of religious conversion in a nation like Britain, where an anemic 11% of the populace...
...more remote than the Falklands. According to church sources, a settlement proposed by a Vatican mediator has been accepted by the government of Chile, but not by that of Argentina. The Galtieri government's refusal had prompted John Paul to spurn the pleas of Argentine bishops for a papal visit, until the fast-moving developments of the past few weeks changed his mind...
Nothing seems likely to keep this Pontiff within Vatican gates. A possible third papal trip this year is under discussion: to Poland. John Paul ardently wants to attend the 600th anniversary of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, even if martial law is still in force when he arrives, just as he wanted to go to Britain despite the supposedly insurmountable diplomatic problems. Last week Archbishop Herbert Bednorz of Katowice stirred speculation by telling 200,000 pilgrims at a shrine in Poland that the Pope wants the internment centers closed, but if they are not closed when he visits, he will...