Word: popes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week, America stopped for him. The granite monuments and the country-of-many-crises blurred in the background of his presence, all the analyses were mere enatter. Who is he? "A pilgrim of faith," he answered in Boston. A mission to America, "a successor of Peter." The Pope who lived, who lives. The Pope who came with a message and left America all by itself, and suddenly there is a catharsis to be found in the ponderous eyes of those who watched--bums, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Moonies, pagans, Carters--that is rooted beneath the careers and ambitions and the cynical...
That there is still poverty, starvation, fear, anxiety, doubt, oppression, hate, horror and evil in America the morning after his departure is no trifle of John Paul's. It is his horror. And today, the evil which the Pope addressed no longer threatens "to take over the world," as he understated--it is destroying...
...almost any religious faith--becomes more distant, yet more dear and alluring. And perhaps a society which has relegated the doctrine of love to its churches and temples and books can no longer afford to be so sure of itself. Science and technology have taught us so much, the Pope acknowledged almost wryly--so much in good and bad. How close are we--at this moment--beneath the desert and in submarines, in mental hospitals and in the nuclear core, to creating Hell...
...Pope stands humbly in his prolific robes, offering a wager...
...MANY TIMES have you heard this on a cheap transistor radio at six in the morning, accompanied by "soul revival" hits? Well, no one sold tickets to the Pope, and you couldn't hear his words through mail order only. He offered it. And what if you refused...