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Finally, John Paul's presence and words reminded Americans?and the world?that humanity does have a higher nature. Said Monsignor John Tracy Ellis, leading ecclesiastical historian at Catholic University: "The greatest contribution that the Pope's visit can make to our nation is focusing upon and emphasizing the need for a revival of morality. John Paul is a man of singular sophistication; he is no pious goose. But he is a moral leader?or he isn't anything...
...Catholics do not agree. The Roman Catholic Church, especially in the U.S., is living through trying times. Last week TIME asked a number of leaders, Catholic and non-Catholic, to comment on the state of the American church and what effect Pope John Paul's visit may have upon...
...antipathy to Catholicism in America was based largely upon an idea of the church as a powerful and tightly disciplined monolith presided over by a spiritual despot in Rome. But the profound cultural changes of the last generation, a new liberalism and tolerance, have altered not only the American people but also the church and therefore the prejudice against it. The church in America now is often seen not as imposingly monolithic but as beleaguered and fragmented. Its members have become selective and of them a la carte Catholics who ignore their prelates' guidance on birth control, divorce...
Some Catholics seize upon the anti-Catholic sentiments strewn around arguments over abortion or contraception and in defensive anger begin to think that the entire non-Catholic society is turning against them. That is simply not true. Both Catholics and non-Catholics can, and do, disagree with the church on some issues without being anti-Catholic. A number of Catholics see evidence that the rest of the country is anti-Catholic if it seems to exclude ethnics - Italians, Irish, Poles and so on - from various opportunities. But that logic is also defective. One-third of the nation's Catholics...
...about sex turns him off, suddenly putting Edwards on the side of romantic tradition. It seems that these days the angels are on more than one side, and Edwards wants to stand with them everywhere. This is particularly hard on Andrews, who is Mrs. Edwards, and is here called upon mostly to be long-suffering, which she does with her customary cheery professionalism, but with small chance of large rewards. Most of the good material is left to Moore, who is a gifted farceur and very brave about soldiering through the editorials. He is not a forceful comedian...