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...hope. He did not say what everyone wanted to hear, and many within and beyond his church took offense. But his fidelity to what he believes people need to hear remained adamant and unwavering. "He'll go down in history as the greatest of our modern Popes," says the Rev. Billy Graham. "He's been the strong conscience of the whole Christian world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Paul II : Empire of the Spirit | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

...from the friends of his youth. Several times a year, he dines with Jerzy Kluger, a Jewish classmate from Wadowice who is a businessman in Rome. Swapping stories and memories, Kluger calls the Pope by his youthful nickname, Lolek. John Paul likes to spend his vacations hiking with the Rev. Father Tadeusz Styczen (pronounced Stee-chen), the Polish philosopher who succeeded to Wojtyla's chair at the University of Lublin and plays a key role in the shaping of his encyclicals. Styczen, 62, continues to be fascinated with John Paul. "He still remains a mystery to me. He begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Paul II : Lives of the Pope | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

Rudenstine's holiday cheer was given a special boost yesterday when members of the University Choir led by Plummer Professor of Christian Morals the Rev. Peter J. Gomes...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Officials Foresee February Return For Rudenstine | 12/20/1994 | See Source »

...Clarke, etc.--should form tutorial programs for the millions of poor Black children in our cities--programs in reading, thinking, math, historical reasoning, biology, etc. We already have a fine example of this viable, helping-hand-to-Black-poor activity to imitate--namely, the activity of former Harvard student Rev. Eugene Rivers, organized through a Pentecostal mission church program in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Open Letter to My Students | 12/16/1994 | See Source »

...cathartic terms of Afro-Romanticism--is, of course, less symbolically stirring and solidaristically glamorous than your Kwanzaa Rituals celebration proposal, that's for certain. But from my vantage point as a pragmatic activist and leftist member of the Black intelligentsia, I can say without fear of contradiction that Rev. Rivers's kind of humanistic and activist outreach program will produce greater modern transformation and benefits for our massive Black poor population (32 percent of Black households, compared to 29 percent of Latino households) and 15 percent of white households). Yes, indeed--much greater benefits than your high-cathartic Kwanzaa Rituals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Open Letter to My Students | 12/16/1994 | See Source »

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