Word: pontiff
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...Americans do not act, he vowed, "Rome will." But a ranking Vatican official said no quick response is anticipated. Pope John Paul's thinking may become known in February, when the first of several contingents of American bishops arrives in Rome for periodic in-person reports to the Pontiff...
Allis has reported John Paul's travels before. He has been stationed in Rome, where his duties include covering the Vatican, since 1985, and he accompanied the Pontiff's entourage to India in 1986 and to Poland this year. But this trip had some especially grueling conditions. First, following the eleven-hour flight from Rome, there was the blast-furnace Florida heat. Then there was the pace. Allis often found himself asking, "How do you attend the Mass and the background briefing at the same time?" Then there was the unusually tight security around the Holy Father. To cover...
Never before during his reign has John Paul heard a more candid, widely publicized presentation on church discord from a group of bishops. And never before had U.S. Catholics -- priests and laity alike -- been told so plainly by the Pontiff that they should not consider themselves good Catholics unless they accept all of the church's teachings. "Dissent from church doctrine remains what it is: dissent," he declared. "As such it may not be proposed or received on an equal footing with the church's authentic teaching...
...appearances. Still, the numbers along his motorcade routes were often surprisingly small, thinned perhaps by fears of the crush and heavy security, or the it's-on-TV-anyway mentality; even on his visit to Detroit, only 30,000 turned out in the largely Polish community of Hamtramck. The Pontiff had made special contact for the first time with varied groups of U.S. Catholics -- Hispanics, American Indians, AIDS sufferers -- but his delivery was often wooden (English is not easy for him), and he was best on the few occasions when he could depart from ceremonial mechanics...
Without mentioning names, John Paul continued his tough tone by taking direct aim at liberal moral theologians like Father Charles Curran, who is fighting his ouster from the Catholic University of America. Theologians, the - Pontiff said, must be subject to church authority, and bishops should make clear that "dissent and confrontation" are not acceptable from church scholars. John Paul also urged the prelates to step up efforts to "safeguard and promote" doctrinal orthodoxy at church-affiliated colleges...