Word: pontiff
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John Paul II, history's most peripatetic pontiff, canceled a four-day October visit to the New York City area and Baltimore, Maryland, citing a need for more recovery time from orthopedic surgery he underwent after a fall in April. The Vatican announced that John Paul, 74, still plans to make his 63rd trip abroad, to Asia, in January, but the cancellation of the American trip spurred speculation about his overall health and possible successors...
...obvious bright side of overpopulation, then, is that no one -- not even a Pontiff -- can tell women that they must hew to their traditional role or risk letting the human race die out. This was the bottom-line argument against women's liberation in the 19th century. But in Cairo the priests and mullahs could hardly invoke biological necessity to silence the forces of feminism. It's not just that women's empowerment is "the new population control weapon," as the New York Times proclaims. Empowerment is also women's overdue reward for filling the planet with humans...
History's most traveled Pope canceled his plans to visit the Big Apple next month, and it wasn't because of the crime rate. A Vatican spokesman explained that the Pontiff hasn't completely recovered from hip-replacement surgery completed this past summer. The announcement immediately set off a fire storm of rumors in the Vatican that the 74-year-old Pope is seriously sick and possibly on the verge of dying, says TIME Rome Reporter Greg Burke. The stories were fueled by the Pope's appearance during his visit to Zagreb 10 days ago. "He looked terrible," says Burke...
Earlier in the week, Pope John Paul II canceled a planned one-day visit to Sarajevo, hours after Bosnian Serb artillery rounds pounded the besieged Bosnian capital. Citing concerns for the safety of the tens of thousands expected to gather to hear him celebrate Mass, the Pontiff said he hoped to visit Sarajevo "as soon as circumstances permit...
...guarantees for the safety of the population" and that a papal visit now could only "add to the tensions." (The pope's planned appearance had been in doubt since he announced the idea last month, as Bosnian Serbs repeatedly warned him to stay away for his own safety.) The pontiff, who vowed to make the journey at some point, is still going to Zagreb, the capital of Croatia and the Roman Catholic center of former Yugoslavia, on Saturday. BTW: John Paul II may not make it to Bosnia, but the bulletproof "Popemobile" is parked there, just in case...