Word: popes
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Against this background, I read with interest Lorraine Lezama's analysis (Crimson, August 17) of Pope John Paul II's recent American visit. And I both concur with and applaud the observation in her opening sentence: though it was a visually exciting spectacle, the visit did not conceal the Pope's uncompromising message. Human beings are more valuable for who they are than for what they have...
...Pope stopped in Jamaica, a young country, barely 30 years old, struggling with its national identity and a heavy burden of debt. Ominously, since the middle seventies, guns proliferate in the culture, and people face increasing poverty. In the United States, the Pope spoke about the violence which plagues the lives of young people in our cities--calling attention to "a culture of death which does not respect life," at home or abroad. Yes, it was and is an uncompromising message. Human beings are more valuable for who they are than for what they have...
...Madonna and Jackson retreated to some celebrity inner sanctum with security befitting a visiting Pope, but the young garage-band superstars -- Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Spin Doctors -- were as ingenuous and casual as their audience. Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was mistaken for a nobody until he produced his all- access laminated pass for an effusively apologetic security guard. When his wife Courtney Love appeared with their infant daughter, she pleaded with the paparazzi, "Hold it, my baby needs some psychic space." By the count of three, however, the child had apparently recuperated, and rock-star wife and rock-star baby posed...
...immensity of their suffering corresponds to the enormity of the crime committed against them." POPE JOHN PAUL II apologizing for the Roman Catholic Church's support of the enslavement of African men, women and children. Apology lag: Several hundred years, but shorter than that of the Vatican's recent apology to Galileo...
...insist that there is no evidence directly linking + some defendants, especially Abdel Rahman, to specific crimes. The Sheik's ferocious tirades against enemies of Islam, they say, cannot be equated with inciting followers to kill. Ron Kuby, lawyer for two defendants, poses a novel analogy: "Why wasn't the Pope taken into custody when he visited Denver? He is the spiritual leader of abortion-clinic bombers and doctor killers...