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...were also reasons why a frail 78-year-old with Parkinson's spent two hectic days in the river city. One was that by hopping from deeply Catholic Mexico City to Catholic-founded St. Louis, he stressed solidarity within the huge territory that, despite political and economic disparities, the Vatican likes to call simply "America." Another was Archbishop Justin Rigali of St. Louis, a beloved adviser. The third reason, more subtle but equally important, might be dubbed Betty Rataj...
...large institution like Harvard, whose $14 billion-and-growing endowment ranks second only to the Vatican among non-profits and whose influence ranges far beyond Cambridge and Boston, there are a lot of important events and issues that do not get coverage. They certainly don't appear in the Gazette, the University's award-winning company newsletter. And they don't appear in other student publications like the Independent, whose news section has dramatically shrunk in size since I first came to Harvard...
...Vatican has framed this trip as an attempt to bridge the gap between the haves and have-nots in the Americas," says TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema. And President Clinton will find that the legendary crusader against communism has some harsh words for capitalism too. In his Ecclesia in America exhortation signed at the weekend, the pope denounced "unbridled consumerism" and a "system (that) considers profits and the law of the market as its only parameters." But to a U.S. President who considers the humming economy his greatest achievement, curbing consumerism will hardly seem like a good idea...
...After 10 years of work, a Vatican commission released a 14-page report on the Roman Catholic Church and (a) the fall of communism (b) birth control (c) education (d) the Holocaust...
...when the Vatican released a 14-page report declaring a genuine (if limited) repentance for the church's role in the Holocaust. Or when Cuba altered its attitude (somewhat) toward Christianity, and Castro invited the Pope for a visit. Or when Northern Ireland made a formal decision not to keep killing itself (for a while). The sound of one mind changing can make one hell of a yarn...