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...year he cast the net of his message wider than ever: Crossing the Threshold of Hope, his meditations on topics ranging from the existence of God to the mistreatment of women, became an immediate best seller in 12 countries. It is an unprecedented case of mass proselytizing by a Pontiff -- arcane but personal, expansive but resolute about its moral message...
Pope John Paul II's 229-page "Crossing the Threshold of Hope" -- the first mass-appeal book by a sitting Pontiff -- starts selling at bookstores worldwide tomorrow morning. TIME religion writer Richard N. Ostling, who's sneaked an advance peak, says U.S. distributor Alfred A. Knopf's million-copy advance printing may be an American record. The $20 hardcover is being put on sale in 35 countries in 21 languages, a commercial feat rivaled only by Mikhail Gorbachev's "Perestroika" and Madonna's teaser "Sex." Ostling, who says many expected repackaged boilerplate from the Holy See, says the Pope...
John Paul II, history's most peripatetic pontiff, canceled a four-day October visit to the New York City area and Baltimore, Maryland, citing a need for more recovery time from orthopedic surgery he underwent after a fall in April. The Vatican announced that John Paul, 74, still plans to make his 63rd trip abroad, to Asia, in January, but the cancellation of the American trip spurred speculation about his overall health and possible successors...
...obvious bright side of overpopulation, then, is that no one -- not even a Pontiff -- can tell women that they must hew to their traditional role or risk letting the human race die out. This was the bottom-line argument against women's liberation in the 19th century. But in Cairo the priests and mullahs could hardly invoke biological necessity to silence the forces of feminism. It's not just that women's empowerment is "the new population control weapon," as the New York Times proclaims. Empowerment is also women's overdue reward for filling the planet with humans...
History's most traveled Pope canceled his plans to visit the Big Apple next month, and it wasn't because of the crime rate. A Vatican spokesman explained that the Pontiff hasn't completely recovered from hip-replacement surgery completed this past summer. The announcement immediately set off a fire storm of rumors in the Vatican that the 74-year-old Pope is seriously sick and possibly on the verge of dying, says TIME Rome Reporter Greg Burke. The stories were fueled by the Pope's appearance during his visit to Zagreb 10 days ago. "He looked terrible," says Burke...