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...that John Paul is about to keep pace with all aspects of American progress, especially the liberal views of U.S. Roman Catholics on sex and birth control. On Saturday, John Paul sharpened his condemnation of abortion. Said the Pontiff: "Precisely when science and medicine are achieving a greater capacity to safeguard health and life, the threats against life are becoming more insidious." The Pope has emphasized that he is the leader of all Catholics. "It is those who disagree with the church who are out of touch," said Pio Cardinal Laghi, the former papal pro-nuncio...
Pope John Paul II, here to lead the Roman Catholic Church's World Youth Day celebration, did not leave the tarmac at Denver's airport before stating his differences with the man who met the plane. Bill Clinton, who supports abortion rights, stood impassively behind the Pontiff as he exhorted a small crowd, "If you want equal justice for all ... then, America, defend life!" Clinton took it gamely, pronouncing the speech "great," and the two retreated for a private talk, which aides said centered on Bosnia...
...Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." (History...
Feelings are what Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Clinton's nominee for Surgeon General, stands accused of hurting with her controversial remarks about antiabortion activists (they have a "love affair with the fetus," and so on). Elders is, as TIME put it, "a verbal bomb thrower." The sensitivities of Roman Catholics and Fundamentalist Protestants were said to have been offended by her tart tongue. No doubt she wishes that she had bitten her tongue on an occasion or two. If that is not promotion of a stifling orthodoxy, what...
...Spanish colonial archives. Over the next half-century, researchers uncovered, among other things, the Popol Vuh (the sacred book of the Quiche Maya tribe) and the Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan, an account of Maya culture during and immediately after the 16th century Spanish conquest written by the Roman Catholic bishop Diego de Landa. By the 1890s, Alfred Maudslay, an English explorer, was compiling the first comprehensive catalog of Maya buildings, monuments and inscriptions in the major known cities, and the first excavations were under...