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...Pope John Paul IIissued "The Gospel of Life," a new encyclical that seeks to address modern discontent with Catholic doctrine on abortion, birth control, mercy killing and euthanasia by linking them as assaults on human dignity.TIME religion writer Richard Ostlingsays the work completes a trilogy of major ethical pronouncements by "the most philosophically trained of modern Popes." The Pope subtly argues that abortion and contraception are "different evils, but closely connected as roots of the same tree. They are rooted in a self-centered concept of freedom that involves procreation as an object of personal fulfillment." At the same time...
...plans to bombCIAheadquarters in Virginia, the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Manila and United Airlines jets crossing the Pacific. The accusations, detailed in just-released police reports, are based on records seized in a January raid on Yousef's Manila apartment. Police also believe Yousef had plans to assassinate Pope John Paul II, who visited the Philippines in January. Yousef, awaiting trial in New York for the1993 World Trade Center bombingthat killed six people and injured 1,000, also is suspected of planting a bomb that killed one passenger on a Philippine airliner in December...
Their music, so serene and intimate, can fill the biggest arenas. In 1979 they played before 1.35 million people in Dublin as an opening act for John Paul II. Later, the Pope had them play at his place. "After the Vatican show," Moloney recalls, "he gave us rosary beads. But we were a little disappointed he didn't invite us to stay for lunch--we were starved!--or for any of his Polish vodka...
...Cybersex? Sounds like a good way to get electrocuted," says "Kase", a Kirkland House senior. If only he knew. Imagine: sex with Madonna or the Pope which Seemslike the real thing! A home virtual reality sex system would create more of a store stampede than Cabbage Patch Dolls or Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers ever...
...researchers plan to continue their work in this field by getting "a better feel for the biological mechanisms involved in these associations," said Pope...