Word: pontiff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish terrorist apprehended seconds after the shooting. But when Martella was ordered to re-open the investigation into the assassination attempt in November 1981, there was already some uncertainty about whether two or three shots had been fired at the Pontiff. Confusion also surrounded a photograph, taken by a tourist immediately after the shooting, that shows a young man running from the square. That man, according to Martella, was Oral Celik, 25, Agca's closest friend, who guided him to his first political crimes, helped him escape from a Turkish jail in 1979 and drew...
...June sent Martella a report, which was leaked to the press, asserting that "some political figure of great power," presumably in the Soviet Union, watched the rise of Poland's Solidarity labor movement and, "mindful of the vital needs of the Eastern bloc," decided that the Polish-born Pontiff must be killed...
...almost half a millennium ago, Pope John Paul II last week traveled to the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. His mission: to launch eight years of "spiritual preparations" to commemorate the Christianization of the Americas that began with Columbus' first voyage to the New World in 1492. The Pontiff used the occasion to issue a thinly veiled denunciation of U.S. and Soviet bloc intrusion in Caribbean and Latin American affairs. He urged listeners to resist "interferences of foreign powers which follow their own economic bloc or ideological interests and reduce peoples to training grounds at the service of their...
...liberation theology movement, a mixture of Christianity and Marxist social activism that has been gaining strength in the region. Among the Pope's complaints about liberation theology is that it tends to pit Roman Catholic laity against the church hier archy. At his stop in Santo Domingo, the Pontiff warned against "considering the poor as a class in struggle, or as a church separated from communion with and obedience to its pastors...
During the first week of his trip John Paul quickly turned characteristic Canadian reserve into enthusiasm, as he switched with ease from exhortative Pontiff to caring pastor. At an outdoor Mass for an estimated 250,000 worshipers at Quebec City's Laval University, the Pope urged a "missionary effort" to develop a "new culture that will integrate the modernity of America even while preserving its deep-seated humanity." At the shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupré on the banks of the St. Lawrence River, he greeted a crowd of more than 3,000 colorfully garbed Indians and Eskimos...