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...best we can get is the status quo. The crisis continues." LOVEMORE MADHUKU, chairman of the pro-democracy National Constitutional Assembly in Zimbabwe, where the increasingly authoritarian President Robert Mugabe was reelected last week amidst allegations of vote-rigging...
...John Paul's early papacy and to his almost instantaneous rise to heroic status was the very aspect that made his election in 1978 so stunning. Unlike generations of Italian Popes brought up to pronounce on the world's great events yet largely cloistered from them, Karol Wojtyla lived in the early 20th century world about as intensely as it was imaginable to do and still survive it. Born in 1920, as Poland, a once great power, was moving toward its postwar sovereignty after more than a century of bitter subjugation, the army officer's son planned to study...
...become priests, but there was to be "no more discussion" of the topic. Many laypeople were appalled that in the throes of a priest shortage, the Pope could so conclusively spurn so many willing to help. The Vatican claimed the decision was infallible--an apparent extension of that status beyond its historical boundaries that startled even some of the Pontiff's ardent supporters. That stern patriarch was the Pope, just as much as the genial pilgrim on the plane...
...became clear John Paul was equally offended by a broad spectrum of doctrinal creativity and criticism. He dismantled the Jesuit leadership, presumably because of its perceived leftist sympathies. (In its place of papal favor, he raised the extremely conservative organization Opus Dei, elevating the once obscure group to the status of his "personal prelature.") Catholic scholars who deviated from orthodox interpretations of the faith--often, it seemed, those who questioned papal prerogative--were silenced or deprived of their teaching positions and expected to take a kind of loyalty pledge...
...best we can get is the status quo. The crisis continues...