Word: pontiff
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...Pope John Paul II proceeds on his Middle East tour retracing the steps of major figures from the Bible, he will find a region where any tribute paid to Peter inevitably has Paul crying robbery. And that has the pontiff walking into the proverbial political minefield - a fact underlined by Israel's deployment of some 22,000 security personnel to ensure his safety. John Paul II arrived in Jordan Monday, and flies to Israel Tuesday to continue his pilgrimage...
...Annunciation - the site where the Angel Gabriel is said to have appeared to Mary - over the objections of local Christians and the Vatican, and tensions may be inflamed by the fact that the local Muslim community has decided to use their temporary tent-mosque on the site during the pontiff's visit to the town...
...little trivial compared to Jerusalem - a city cohabited uneasily by the three faiths that consider it holy, and claimed as a capital by two nations who've yet to conclude a final peace agreement to end a half century of war. While the Palestinians are chagrined that the pontiff's hosts in the Holy City will be the Israelis, Israel is unhappy that he'll meet with the Palestinian Authority-appointed Grand Mufti on the Temple Mount, a site on which the third-holiest site in Islam - the Al Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock - is built atop...
...World debts. Clinton, too, has endorsed a full write-off. Jubilee 2000 even draws on support from God himself, or at least His surrogate on earth, Pope John Paul II. Bono and Sachs were part of the Jubilee team that met with his Holiness last October, at which the pontiff was labeled "funky" by the eloquent Bono...
...longtime passion of John Paul II's. Cardinal Biffi's comments, perhaps, signal the extent of conservative opposition in John Paul II's path and therefore his extraordinary achievement in bringing his church this far. But even the fact that he has opened up such profound debate confirms the pontiff's simple exhortation to Catholics at the dawn of a new millennium: that their faith not be blind, but clear-sighted...