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John Paul also consults frequently with bishops outside Rome whose judgment he trusts. The Pope has relied heavily for advice on the synod of bishops that meets in Rome every three years. He has attended all their sessions -- including the most recent ones in October -- listening with his usual intensity. But there is never a joint final communique. Indeed, the Pope may be advised, but to the private dismay of many bishops, any decision on issues discussed will be made by the Pope, and the Pope alone. As John Paul once told TIME's Wilton Wynn: "It is a mistake...
...until recently as becoming too liberal -- has led him to encourage lay Catholic movements such as Opus Dei. (Papal spokesman Navarro is a member.) He has declared this controversial organization a personal prelature, which means that it is exempt from the jurisdiction of local bishops and reports directly to Rome. The Pope has also given warm encouragement to a new religious order, the Legionaries of Christ, which some conservatives see as a replacement for the Jesuits of old. Members are in training for up to 14 years (even longer than Jesuits) and have proved themselves to be more personally committed...
...time erodes his physical powers and numbers the days of his pontificate, John Paul seeks strength 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...
Within the parish, the bitterest battles are usually fought within the hearts of individual parishioners trying to square their own faith with the dictates of Rome. For Bruce Schermerhorn, 47, the struggle escalated when he got divorced in 1976. Remarried by a judge in 1985, he attended Mass regularly without taking Communion. "I've always had an adversarial relationship with the church," he says. Last year, after joining a weekly men's prayer group, he finally decided to take Communion. "Well, I wasn't struck down by a bolt & of lightning and the ceiling didn't open up," he says...
...church already is changing, whether Rome likes it or not. "We are the church," says Mary Anne Barry, 71, whose faith remains unshaken by her strong differences with the Vatican. "I'm really not an admirer of John Paul II," she says. "He still thinks that sexual sins -- I call those pelvic sins -- are the big going-to-hell sins, and I don't believe that." Mike Tobin, a deeply committed Catholic who helped organize the gym Mass, says, "Rome is very irrelevant to me. I'm thankful the Pope helped shut down communism, but in many ways I disagree...