Word: popes
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...effort to promote cooperation among different Christian faiths,Pope John Paul IItoday acknowledged past mistakes in theChurch's dealings with other Christiansand encouraged dialogue about the way the papacy exercises its supremacy. The message comes in the Pope's 12th encyclical, which is addressed not just to Catholics but to all Christians.TIME'S John Elsonsays the declaration is "much like the Pope's personality. It combines a level of humility on one hand with an uncompromising authoritarianism on the other. This assertion of his primacy is not going to make the Protestants very happy. But what the Pope would really...
Diehl has many tales. Last year a C-130 cargo plane collided with an F-16 fighter jet over Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina, killing 24 people. The so-called composite-wing policy that grouped perhaps incompatible planes at the same base was not evaluated by investigators. It was the idea of General Merrill McPeak, the service's top officer before he retired last fall. "Other investigators felt this issue was at the crux of the accident, but dared not bring it up again," Diehl writes. Instead an air-traffic controller was blamed. The pilots involved have resumed...
...75th birthday,Pope John Paul IIsaid surgery and recent health problems will not drive him to step down from St. Peter's Throne, even though Church law allows him to resign if he feels incapacitated. "I renew before Christ the offer of my availability to serve the Church for as long as He wants," the pontiff told 18,000 people in St. Peter's Square, who sang "Happy Birthday." Fellow Poles in the crowd regaled him with an even more upbeat song: "Stolat," or "100 Years...
...Pope John Paul II after referring to Buddhism in a recent book as "in large measure an atheistic system...
...still. There is another major miracle-validating body in the Catholic world: the International Medical Committee for the shrine at Lourdes. Since miracles at Lourdes are all ascribed to the intercession of the Virgin Mary, it is not caught up in the saint-making process, which some believe the Pope has running overtime. Roger Pilon, the head of Lourdes' committee, notes that he and his colleagues have not approved a miracle since 1989, while the Vatican recommended 12 in 1994 alone. "Are we too severe?" he wonders out loud. "Are they really using the same criteria...