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Blessed are the peacemakers. Blessed, and beleaguered, as Pope John Paul II has discovered on his tour of Syria. The pontiff found himself at the center of a familiar Middle Eastern political firestorm Monday, as his Syrian hosts took him to the ruins of Kuneitra, a town bordering the Golan Heights that was destroyed by Israeli forces in 1974 and has been maintained as a ghost town ever since. And while the pope prayed for peace and for the victims of the latest Israeli-Palestinian violence, Israelis expressed outrage at remarks by Syria's President Bashar Assad in welcoming...
...years after he broke his leg and set in motion what some observers see as a quiet struggle to succeed him, John Paul II, like Paul VI before him, explicitly forbade the Cardinals to so much as chat about the matter of the next Pontiff. Still, in the media, candidates cropped up, and lately the speculation has grown intense, fueled by John Paul's declining health--at almost 81, he shows the symptoms of Parkinson's disease--and by a flurry of Vatican activity. Last month 44 Cardinals were installed, and in May the princes of the church will again...
...being an American. Vatican watchers agree that as long as the U.S. dominates the world economically and militarily, it will have to take a backseat spiritually. No one, it seems, wants a superpower Pope. But what about a Third World Pontiff? Talk of a Latin American has grown. Aside from Castrillon Hoyos, the buzz focuses on Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, the Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. John Paul is the first non-Italian Pope since the early 1500s. A Honduran successor looks like a stretch...
President-elect George W. Bush may be relatively new to Washington, but when he came to town Monday with a $1.3 trillion across-the-board tax cut on his mind, he knew just the man whose ring he had to kiss first: Alan Greenspan, pontiff of the U.S. economy...
...possessed woman is one of Amorth's tougher patients (he says he didn't witness the incident but was told about it later); and the Pope, he claims, had no better luck in dislodging the demon. After the Pontiff left, a voice was heard to speak through her: "Not even [the] head [of the church] can send me away." Odd as the story may sound, it is the third reported instance of John Paul's attempting to cast out a demon (the others took place in 1978 and 1982). At a time when official exorcists are being added by several...