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...curbing population growth lies in giving women more control over their own health and reproduction. Instead the International Conference on Population and Development, being held in Cairo this week, was in danger of falling apart before it even got started. An unusual convergence of interests between Roman Catholic and Muslim leaders put the organizers of the United Nations-sponsored conference on the defensive around the flash points of abortion and sex education for teens. At least two Prime Ministers from Islamic countries decided, at the last minute, not to attend, and four Middle Eastern nations announced they were boycotting...
...planned appearance had been in doubt since he announced the idea last month, as Bosnian Serbs repeatedly warned him to stay away for his own safety.) The pontiff, who vowed to make the journey at some point, is still going to Zagreb, the capital of Croatia and the Roman Catholic center of former Yugoslavia, on Saturday. BTW: John Paul II may not make it to Bosnia, but the bulletproof "Popemobile" is parked there, just in case...
...exchequer, the British government would welcome the chance to bring its troops home from Northern Ireland, where the struggle in Ulster is increasingly viewed with a sense of distance and disgust, could do without the headache the confrontation presents. The majority of people in Northern Ireland itself, be they Roman Catholic or Protestant, would simply like to get on with their lives. Even the I.R.A., it seems, is beginning to have second thoughts about the likelihood of securing a united Ireland at the point of a gun. Says Martin McGuiness, Sinn Fein's second in command and reputedly part...
Defenders of justifiable homicide make a simple, if scary, argument: if abortion is murder, then any means to prevent it -- even murder -- is morally justified. Says Roman Catholic priest David Trosch, perhaps the most vocal proponent of this view: "If a person with a shotgun happened upon the scene of massive butchering of innocent children, and failed to act with deadly force, as quickly as possible, he would be committing a grave offense against God." Trosch's public eagerness for the death of abortion doctors, as well as their staffs and officials of Planned Parenthood, has caused the Archbishop...
Sacred texts are racing through cyberspace at speeds that trouble the more gently paced Roman Catholic Church bureaucracy. When CRNET, a Virginia-based Catholic dial-up network, put the new Catholic catechism online this month, fearful editors had to yank it after a few hours. The reason: the U.S. Catholic Conference declared that the Vatican -- which, after all, holds the copyright on the catechism -- has to decide just when its texts should be electronically distributed. The issue will have to be deliberated by numerous committees and ultimately signed off on by the Vatican. "I don't think just anybody...