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Government. He discovers a Khrushchev more friendly to the Pope than to John Kennedy; John XXIII maneuvering behind the backs of the Vatican Curia's professional antiCommunists; and CIA Director John McCone, a Catholic, warning his Pontiff that he is going too far. This is a valuable history for anyone attracted to modern diplomacy and Vatican intrigue...
...unusual enough, Pope John Paul II-who after his election two years ago was denied his wish to send an uncensored Christmas message to his home archdiocese-was accorded twelve minutes on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to address his countrymen in a taped television spot. Said the Pontiff: "I pray with you for our common fatherland. I recommend to Christ and to his Mother all that has happened in Poland in the past months and, above all, this unity of peace and mutual respect and understanding...
Touring the stricken region by helicopter on Tuesday, Pope John Paul II visited a hospital and stopped in Balvano to comfort the grieving townspeople. "I come as a brother," the Pontiff said in his quiet, Polish-accented Italian, his white garments stained from embracing grimy survivors. "I want to tell you that you are surrounded by compassion on the part of all Christians...
...once held by many Catholic theologians that sexual pleasure even in marriage is deeply suspect. That is far from the case. In sermons and writings John Paul has dealt extensively with marriage, and often places a remarkably unpontifical emphasis on matters of the flesh. The book of Genesis, the Pontiff once declared, shows "the pure value of the body and of sex" in God's eyes...
What a vision awaited visitors to the Royal Palace in Caserta, Italy. Traipsing through the gardens with Actress Isabella Rossellini, daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Director Roberto Rossellini, was a familiar white-robed figure with the distinctive bearing of Pope John Paul II. Young girls genuflected as the Pontiff passed. A sightseeing nun fainted dead away. After all, His Holiness was at that moment supposed to be traveling in Africa 3,000 miles away. A papal miracle? No, a cinematic satire, Il Papocchio (rough translation: Papal Mess). The Italian film features Actor Manfred Freiberger, a look-alike for the Polish...