Word: pontiff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angeles bureau chief Jordan Bonfante, the story had a nostalgic resonance. Bonfante was assigned to Rome in 1978 when, he remembers, "I covered three Popes in a single year: Paul VI, who died in August; John Paul I, who lived only 34 days; and John Paul II, the current Pontiff. I came to regard the Vatican as a second country we had to cover on a daily basis." For this story, he talked to leaders of the public debate. He then went to local churches and found the discussion in the pews just as intense...
...TIMES they are difficult for mere mortals to imagine. Visiting a parish in Rome this month, POPE JOHN PAUL II explained a key difference between heaven and earth: on the far side of the pearly gates, there is no sex. Residents of paradise need no mates, said the Pontiff, because "they are like the angels...
...course no individual then or now has ever been solely responsibility--after all. Boniface VII did declare that "every human creature" was "subject to Roman Pontiff." Although this edict has recently been ignored, popes do not have a very good record of taking the side of justice...
...first blush, as a Catholic, I found disturbing the singer's recent performance on Saturday Night Live, where she ripped to shreds an 8" by 10" color photo of the pontiff, while shouting "fight the real enemy". Initially, I equated this act with the disruption of the mass at New York's St. Patrick Cathedral by gay rights activists...
...ceaseless debate. In 1977 the Vatican doctrinal office sought to halt the discussion with a decree insisting on an all-male priesthood. In 1979, during Pope John Paul's first U.S. visit, Sister Theresa Kane, then president of the organization for leaders of women's orders, publicly informed the Pontiff of "the intense suffering and pain" many churchwomen experience...