Word: vatican
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...VATICAN, as the saying goes, "thinks in centuries." Today, more than ever, this habit of mind may present drastic difficulties for a Church which must keep up with revolutions sexual, industrial and demographic, or today's flocks may outpace their shepherds' century-a-step crawl. The drama of a church falling behind the very people it is supposed to lead is the stuff of which great books are made. This, unfortunately, is not the book...
Though his journey took him a mere 75 miles north of the Vatican, Pope John Paul II, 61, was delighted to be back doing what he does best. The Pontiffs trip to the Italian village of Todi was his first visit outside Rome since he was felled by a would-be assassin's bullet in St. Peter's Square. Security forces, the largest ever in Italy for a papal visit, tried to keep a distance between the Pontiff and a crowd of 10,000, but John Paul would have none of it. Disregarding his ring of security guards...
...years. Why? Before shipping him back to his order in Florida, the Company does its unsubtle best to pry the answer from the emaciated priest. Back home, Tunney attracts a lot of professional interest. There is a top KGB operative from Moscow, a sacerdotal snooper from the Vatican, a cold-blooded loner from...
...goes with the job, sort of like the hat. And some of the objections were from purebred members of the American ultraleft, the Sparts for instance. Their hissing made much more sense, for Catholicism, and in particular the rise of John Paul II from his Polish bishopric to the Vatican, made this revolution possible. If religion breeds docility in some places, and surely it does, it can also have the opposite effect--empowering, emboldening, bolstering courage to the point where men will take risks like these. Catholic Mass becomes political in two senses in this movie: Walesa's repeated demands...
Doin' the Vatican...