Word: popes
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...Saturday morning. a few parishioners of bustling and growing St. Joseph Catholic Church in suburban Baltimore, Maryland, gather in a member's living room to discuss their Roman Catholic faith. The people from St. Joe's, a parish of 10,000, speak reverentially about Pope John Paul II. He is a familiar figure to them, and at last they may be able to catch a glimpse of him in person. A long and rich history hovers in the background. Founded as a colonial refuge for English Catholics in 1634, Maryland later served as headquarters of the first diocese...
Such a dissolution of Catholicism into the upwardly mobile, materialistic American mainstream is precisely what Pope John Paul II has been trying to reverse. He visits the U.S. this week not only as a charismatic and revered leader but as the living embodiment of central church authority, the person at the top of the age-old hierarchy. Many prayers will be said this week, by John Paul and by millions of devoted but independent-minded Catholics. The answers will take a while--and may not be to every supplicant's liking...
...last few pages of Andrew Greeley's 1981 best seller, The Cardinal Sins, there is a scene in which a crowd of reporters has gathered in St. Peter's Square in Rome to await the wisp of white smoke that will signal the election of a new Pope. One of those journalists, Greeley writes, is Jordan Bonfante, TIME's Rome bureau chief, who vanishes "to dash off his story" the moment the smoke appears...
...book is fiction, but the reporter and his dedication are real. Bonfante, who is now TIME's Los Angeles bureau chief, was one of the key contributors to the story in this issue on the state of the U.S. Roman Catholic Church on the eve of Pope John Paul II's visit to America. The other was Richard Ostling, a senior correspondent and a frequent commentator on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and CBS Radio...
Bonfante's travels--besides Rome, he has covered Greece, Turkey and the Middle East and has served as Time's Paris bureau chief--give him a global perspective on the Pontiff's role. "We in the U.S. are so intent on 'political' questions we sometimes forget that the Pope has a worldwide church to worry about," he says. For this week's piece, Bonfante brought the international perspective home by traveling to predominantly Mexican-American East Los Angeles to visit the Iglesia de la Resurreccion (Church of the Resurrection), where Mass is accompanied by an eight-piece mariachi band, complete...