Word: papally
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...than for the fact that Danneels, a blunt-spoken former liturgy professor on some short lists to be the next Pope, has essentially conceded the degree to which John Paul II's personal magnetism and its electronic deployment have made photo-ready charisma a nearly essential element of the papal job description...
...regarded as a protégé of Pope Paul VI. Yet after Paul died in 1978 and his successor John Paul I succumbed to a heart attack only 34 days into his papacy, Wojtyla was so oblivious to his impending fate that he spent the first day of the new papal conclave nonchalantly browsing through a quarterly review of Marxist theory. When the two leading Italian candidates, a Vatican power broker and an ultraconservative, deadlocked, the Cardinals began looking over the Alps for the first time since 1522. Elected on the eighth ballot, Wojtyla modestly chose to be called John Paul...
...enormous, bloc-shaking crowds. On the next trip, after he told the restive populace to "be not afraid" and declared in the holy town of Czestochowa that "man cannot remain with no way out," the new Solidarity free-trade-union movement made him its virtual patron saint, flying the papal flag at the gate of the Gdansk shipyard...
...simple answer was that liberation theology smacked too much of communism. But as time went on, it became clear John Paul was equally offended by a broad spectrum of doctrinal creativity and criticism. He dismantled the Jesuit leadership, presumably because of its perceived leftist sympathies. (In its place of papal favor, he raised the extremely conservative organization Opus Dei, elevating the once obscure group to the status of his "personal prelature.") Catholic scholars who deviated from orthodox interpretations of the faith--often, it seemed, those who questioned papal prerogative--were silenced or deprived of their teaching positions and expected...
...abuse--and its enabling by at least some bishops--became a searing national issue in 2002. At the Pope's directives, the U.S. bishops' conference proposed a variety of get-tough measures, which were subsequently watered down in Rome. Observers wondered whether that was the most egregious example of papal preference for church authority over lay concerns or simply a function of his growing inability to stand up to his own bureaucracy. Similarly, some thought a younger John Paul would have more forcefully addressed the Sept. 11 attacks and his opposition to the allied invasion of Iraq. A few wished...