Word: pontiff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Biggest book deal by a Pontiff: $6 million-plus for English edition...
...breaking agreement, cemented last Dec. 31, signals a reconciliation with Jews led by Pope John Paul II, whose native Poland witnessed many of the atrocities of the Holocaust. Vatican sources told TIME Rome bureau chief John Moody that the announcement was likely held back almost two months as the Pontiff waited for recent Mideast unrest to subside: "The final part of the negotiations was a bit harder than anybody had anticipated...
Since Pope John Paul II fell and injured his shoulder last month, the inevitable speculation has begun about possible successors to the 73-year-old Pontiff. If the election were held this week, 105 Cardinals under age 80 would be eligible to vote for and serve as the next Pope. Among the most mentioned...
...hierarchy -- beginning at the top. The Pope and Ratzinger are, says one mid-ranking Vatican official, "two pieces of a puzzle. Without one, the other is not complete." Others point out an obvious primacy. Asked whether the Cardinal in practice was the undisputed No. 2 under the Pontiff, one insider in the Holy See responds, "Intellectually and theologically...
...barbaric atheism and dehumanizing secularism: Karol Wojtyla, the Archbishop of Cracow and the future John Paul II. Both were members of the worldwide Synod of Bishops -- an advisory council to the Pope. In 1980, two years after his accession, John Paul asked Ratzinger to join him in Rome. The Pontiff was turned down -- twice. Finally Ratzinger laid out his conditions. He would come only if he could continue to speak his mind on matters he felt strongly about. If John Paul was ever worried that he and Ratzinger would clash over ideas, that concern has dissipated. "In fact," says Ratzinger...