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...Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn has accompanied the Pope on 16 of his voyages abroad and found the current one the hardest to cover, because of the very tight security surrounding the Pope in Central America. But Wynn thinks that because of the strains in Central American church-state relations, this papal trip may ultimately rank among John Paul's most important. "At one time," he says, "I assumed that if the Pope traveled too often, his trips would lose their news impact. Somehow, the trips are never routine." This is why John Paul makes his sixth appearance...
...followers are deeply divided over the policies of a revolutionary government. A group of 300 Nicaraguan exiles kept a silent vigil on a grassy knoll, holding up banners denouncing the Sandinista regime. Said one: IN NICARAGUA RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION EXISTS! Another, referring to harassment of early Christians in Rome, read: NO CATACOMBS IN NICARAGUA! Though Nicaragua's Catholic leaders supported the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship, moderate clerics have now grown wary of Sandinista-supported efforts to meld Christianity with Marxist ideology...
...back to Rome, the Pope will stop for a day in Haiti to address the fourth Latin American Bishops Conference. John Paul will not have to look far to see examples of the poverty and tyranny that he wants the church to oppose with all its moral might. Long fearful of government repression, the church hierarchy in Haiti issued a bold challenge to President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier's dictatorship in a pastoral letter read from pulpits last January. Among other things, it called on all believers to "pray to the Lord so he can free our country from...
Your review of "The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art" [Feb. 14] is a disturbing testament to the insensitivity and isolation of art critics. Exhibitions like the one now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art give people who cannot afford a trip to Rome, London or Paris an opportunity to see great works...
...that the police might have found the general without help from Restelli. On the other hand, Italian magistrates acknowledged that on Jan. 26 Restelli was secretly released from prison at the request of SISMI and the CIA to meet with officials in Milan. U.S. embassy personnel in Rome confirm that Dozier's whereabouts was not known until the night before the raid, which is when the Mafia leader reportedly gave the address to the Italians...