Word: popes
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...more than 1 million Jews were slaughtered. When the convent opened in 1984, in a building once used to store poison gas, Jewish organizations around the world protested that this Roman Catholic presence was inappropriate at the very gates of a place of such particularly solemn significance to Jews. Pope John Paul II ordered the nuns to move out in April...
...most important lessons, says Burr, is to avoid suicidal head-to- head confrontations with the big carriers. Still, collisions seem inevitable. "As much as we would like to dismiss these pesky little rascals," says John Pope, president of United Airlines, "we realize that they are a phenomenon that will not go away...
...message thundered out of the Vatican with the force of the Gospel from which it was taken. "How severe are Christ's words," wrote the Pope in a letter released last week to America's bishops; "how great must be that evil." After years in which the Vatican downplayed the sex scandals that have plagued the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S., John Paul II publicly acknowledged the enormity of the problem. Indeed, the bishops, who have long petitioned Rome for special disciplinary powers to deal with the crisis, are deeply aware of its dimensions. In June the hierarchy...
Public concern over the flesh trade is rising. Last year Pope John Paul II expressed "horror over the degrading practice of sex tourism." In 1990 he had warned that "men, women and children must not be used as objects at the expense of their inalienable dignity." And a backlash against the sex trade is taking form in several countries where it has long been entrenched. In Manila the new mayor, Alfredo Lim, vows "to eradicate prostitution," and has padlocked 300 bars. Under a new law, pimps and clients will face prison and deportation. In Karachi human-rights lawyers are mobilizing...
...Harvard graduate and a graduate student are joining a long-standing call by Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes and Pope Professor Latin Language and Literature Emeritus Mason Hammond '25 for some form of memorial to the 64 Harvard men who died wearing gray rather than blue...