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Prepared following the Second Vatican Council the Catechism comments on both essential tenets and recent "hot" issues. In intelligent, concise and well-written prose, the Church reaffirms its opposition to homosexual acts (not homosexuals--there's a difference). It explains its continued opposition to abortion. It maintains the prohibition on the use of contraception...
John Paul II, history's most peripatetic pontiff, canceled a four-day October visit to the New York City area and Baltimore, Maryland, citing a need for more recovery time from orthopedic surgery he underwent after a fall in April. The Vatican announced that John Paul, 74, still plans to make his 63rd trip abroad, to Asia, in January, but the cancellation of the American trip spurred speculation about his overall health and possible successors...
Despite intense opposition from the Roman Catholic Church, the document also recognizes that unsafe abortions are a public-health problem that should be addressed. But the plan steered clear of encouraging abortion as a means of family planning, and, in a stunning reversal, the Vatican endorsed much of the program...
That conciliatory step may have been a response to the anger aroused by the Vatican's earlier attempts to rally nations against the meeting. The Holy See had courted fundamentalists in Iran, for example, but instead of bashing the West, the Islamic republic delighted delegates by working harmoniously to resolve differences over the language in the final document. Iran's Deputy Minister of Health, Malek Afzali, spoke proudly of his nation's aggressive family-planning program, which he claimed has cut Iran's population growth rate in half, from 3.6% a year in the early 1980s...
After nine days of wrangling over abortion and semantics, the U.N. population conference formally agreed that the key to limiting world population growth rests with the advancement of women. Delegates from nearly 180 countries -- as well as the Vatican, which joined the consensus in a "partial manner" -- endorsed a document that argues for meeting health and education needs as one of the most effective brakes to population growth...