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...left the world stunned, and prompted TIME'S third cover story on the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church in two months. Whoever is elected as John Paul's successor, and wherever he leads his church, TIME will report on the man and his achievements with the vigor that Henry Luce, half a century ago, felt they deserved...
James MacGregor Burns '47 tackles this age-old debate with remarkable vigor. Burns, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has long been fascinated by leaders, and much of his life's work has prepared him for writing Leadership. His biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Woodrow Wilson, and of two Kennedy brothers have won him wide acclaim. But Burns has been more than a dispassionate observer; in 1958 he ran for Congress, and he has haunted Democratic national conventions for the past two decades...
...characterizations with a few gestures-flinging up his arms, walking a few steps, sitting, taking a well-judged pause for a sip of water. But mostly this is acting, as the saying goes, from the neck up. It rests on vocal virtuosity, powerfully abetted by the matchless pith and vigor of the King James version...
...grandfather's face is collecting wrinkles. There is more gray at his temples. He has thickened a little at the waist. But there is energy in his eyes and his movements, a mental vigor that seems untouched by the savage season of Watergate. One concludes that Nixon looks his guest in the eye more directly, more confidently and with less of the familiar lid fluttering that sometimes marred his human encounters years ago in the White House...
...worldwide survey by TIME correspondents last week showed that Paul's increased attentiveness to areas beyond the Western democracies has been paralleled by increasing church vigor in those areas. In the First World, attendance at Mass fell dramatically and a shortage of priests afflicted nation after nation during Paul's pontificate. Ideological acrimony still abounds. But Catholicism is reviving in Communist Eastern Europe, the Catholic population in Africa has grown 111% (to 52 million) during the Pauline era, and Latin America enjoys signs of resurgence after a difficult period. The reason? Perhaps squabbles over doctrine and church reform appear less...