Word: popes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...giant turquoise-and-pink Jesus Christ alongside a black mural of Che Guevara. Fidel Castro's hand gently guiding Pope John Paul II's shuffling steps. Symbols of accord amid substantive disagreement. The pastoral and the political came together in Cuba last week just the way the missionary of Christian faith and the apostle of communism had planned. But as the two pursued their own agendas, each had to be disappointed that the historic visit intended as a public relations coup was upstaged in the U.S. by the Clinton sex scandal...
...position of the Catholic Church on abortion is clear, but it may surprise you. In his recent book, Crossing the Threshold of Hope,Pope John Paul II wrote that in firmly rejecting pro choice it is necessary to become courageously pro-woman, promoting a choice that is truly in favor of women. The Catholic Church believes that abortion is murder, but also recognizes that simply saying so will not end the devaluation of life. Words will not end abortion. Deeds of compassion and understanding will...
...staged a "national town hall" with a panel of journalism's top sharks. Unfortunately, little came out of the rambling, self-serving exercise. Dan Rather said that news today is driven by circulation, not standards, and correctly noted that if he had stayed behind in Cuba to cover the pope rather than jetting back to Washington, he would have had to seek asylum from the wrath of his employers. The best line of the night came from an amazingly calm Mike McCurry, on remote from the White House briefing room, who ascribed Air Force One's mud delay...
CROZIER Designed for the Pope by Lello Scorzelli...
...report will have to concede that FIDEL CASTRO does have a large pharmaceutical industry that could produce biological agents. He also possesses six Russian MiG-29 jets, which Moscow delivered during the cold war, that are equipped to carry such theoretical weaponry. Senior Pentagon officers, who hope Pope John Paul II's visit to Cuba this week will help ease tensions, privately favor normalizing relations with Havana. They fear that the report will only throw red meat to congressional and Cuban-American hard-liners, who will demand that sanctions be tightened and U.S forces be returned to Florida...