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Pope John Paul II's generalized apology for the wrongs committed by Roman Catholics over the centuries (implicitly, the Crusades, the Inquisition and a terrible inaction and silence in the face of the Holocaust) came during a Mass of Pardon at St. Peter's Basilica that served as a penitential prelude to his visit this week to Israel. The global jury is still deliberating on what to make of the apology...
...head of the Roman Catholic Church, John Paul has one foot in the dimension of history (where mess, error, violence, fanaticism and stupidity flourish merrily) and the other in the dimension of eternity (where, he must insist, the holiness and infallibility of the church as the mystical body of Christ remain intact). It is awkward: How does infallibility own up to its fallibilities and yet remain infallible? The Pope's solution: by being vague about the actual sins and by attributing them, in any case, to men and women who are Catholics and not to the Catholic Church itself...
...given Karol Wojtyla's job description and his trip's locus, little else about it is personal or simple. A billion Roman Catholics and innumerable other Christians will follow his every encounter in the footsteps of their Saviour. Many Jews will cautiously applaud what Aharon Lopez, Israel's ambassador to the Holy See, calls "with all due respect...the climax" of recent Catholic-Jewish amity. That's the upside. The downside? It will be a security nightmare and a diplomatic high-wire act. Says Israeli police official David Tsur: "It touches all the nerves we can think...
...faiths that might have felt equally aggrieved), saying he regretted not speaking out earlier against intolerance at Bob Jones. (By week's end, tired of the rumpus, Bob Jones III told Larry King the university would lift its ban on interracial dating.) Bush spent the week surrounding himself with Roman Catholic supporters and clerics, visiting Catholic charities and generally waltzing back toward the center and the soothing themes he was singing last summer. When he campaigned in Georgia, conservative adviser Ralph Reed was nowhere in sight--because he was keeping out of sight, meeting with Bush away from the public...
...everlastingly famous soft watches--is not in this show, but another and equally beautiful small picture is: Paranoiac-Astral Image, 1934. On a vast and otherwise empty plane of beach flat as a billiard table, four images are dispersed. A fragment of an amphora suggests "deep" time, the Greco-Roman past of the Catalan coast. A distant woman, perhaps the constantly remembered nurse of Dali's childhood, is almost bleached out by the sunlight. In a stranded boat, another woman, probably his muse and wife Gala, confronts a boy in a sailor suit who can be none other than Dali...