Word: popes
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...some meetings, the committee invites guest speakers from the different fields represented by the Core to discuss their philosophies and to answer our questions about how they administer their own Core courses. Guests have included Pope Professor Richard J. Tarrant, who teaches "Literature and Arts C-61: The Rome of Augustus" and Nancy Sommers, director of the Expository Writing program...
MANAGUA, NICARAGUA: Hundreds of thousands of jubilant Roman Catholics turned out Wednesday to celebrate with Pope John Paul II at an open-air Mass. In a nation that is nearly 80 percent Catholic, the Pope's arrival is considered a blessing. Welcoming him, President Violeta Chamorro, a devout Catholic, said the visit could help heal old wounds in a nation still recovering from a decade-long civil war. "Thanks to divine providence, peace has returned to your country and to all of Central America," the Pope told the crowd. In 1990 elections, Chamorro defeated the leftist Sandinistas, who controlled...
GUATEMALA CITY: Pope John Paul arrived in Guatemala Monday amid intensive security precautions, just a day after what appeared to have been an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Guatemalan President Alvar Arzu. Hoping to speed up the sluggish peace negotiations that have done little to end the 30-year civil war, Pope John Paul is also waging what Mexico Bureau Chief Laura Lopez calls "the intrachristian battle for for hearts and minds". In recent years, the Catholic Church has lost followers in Guatemela to an increasingly popular evangelical movement. Lopez says: "There are only 281 diocesan priests, and 952 religious workers...
WHITEWATER: CR: RUTH FREMSON-AP; BUDGET: CR: GREG GIBSON-AP; BOSNIA CR: REUTERS POOL; POPE: CR: RUTILIO ENAMORADO-REUTERS; ISRAEL: CR:JIM HOLLANDER-REUTERS; BUDDHA: CR: ROBERT NICKELSBERG FOR TIME; SIMPSON CR: STEVEN SCHRETZMANN-THE DESERT...
...centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, that Professor Mason Hammond '25, then Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, asked in a letter in The Alumni Bulletin if the "time had come" to consider a memorial to the southern dead as an act of reconciliation. I joined this cause in 1976, on the nation's bicentennial, raised it again as art issue at the time of the University's 350th anniversary celebrations in 1986, and have written and preached on the topic ever since. To my knowledge the initiative in all of these discussions has always been...