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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...
...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...
...confront a global reality absent from its core thinking at the start of the last millennium: That Catholicism will, for the foreseeable future, remain one faith among many, Christian and non-Christian, with which it must coexist. In many ways, it's an intensely personal mission of a pontiff nearing the end of his life as his church celebrates its Jubilee. "The pope has long promised to lead the church in coming to terms with some of its sins on the occasion of the Jubilee," says Van Biema. "For him, it's the culmination of many years of work...
...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...