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...many ways Pope Benedict XVI's entire trip to Poland has been a chance to pay homage to the Polish pope. He spoke in the central Warsaw square where John Paul II encouraged his countrymen to maintain their faith in the face of the Communist regime. He visited his predecessor?s hometown and gave hope to those who want to see John Paul be made a saint as soon as possible. And he drew a million-strong crowd Sunday morning in Krakow, the former diocese of Archbishop Karol Wojtyla, for an open-air mass. All along, he received rave reviews...
...opening remarks to dignitaries, clergy and faithful at the Warsaw airport Thursday - and later at the city's main cathedral - there was no avoiding the sounds of the changing of the guard since John Paul died nearly 14 months ago. A skilled linguist like his predecessor, Benedict opened and closed his speeches in Polish, but (as planned) spoke almost exclusively in Italian, the official Vatican tongue, with an aide translating into the local language. There could be no more jarring reality for this passionately Catholic country that had grown used to seeing one of their own in the seat...
...undergraduates today commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, they will follow in the footsteps of their predecessors who sponsored refugees from Nazi Germany to complete an undergraduate education. Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the 63rd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when captive Jews in Poland’s capital attempted a revolt. As German forces marched through Europe and then attempted to exterminate the continent’s Jews, student pressure here at Harvard eventually caused the University to sponsor the full undergraduate educations of 14 refugees by 1944. Rahel Kestenberg, who fled from Prague, was the first Jewish refugee...
...years, Opus Dei has been a rumor magnet. Successful and secretive, it has been accused of using lavish riches and carefully cultivated clout to do everything from propping up Francisco Franco's Spanish dictatorship to pushing through its founder's premature sainthood to planting conservative minions in governments from Warsaw to Washington. Brown's treatment of the group had seemed to represent an untoppable high-sewage mark--that is, until the movie trailer appeared. Says Juan Manuel Mora, director of Opus Dei's communications department in Rome: "Reading a print version is one thing. Seeing the color images is another...
Some have said that Opus' true secret is its clout in international politics. Poland's new conservative regime includes an Opus minister and several Opus officials, according to one of the group's Warsaw directors; membership there is rumored to be a political stepping-stone. In Peru, Juan Luis Cardinal Cipriani, the church's first openly Opus Dei Cardinal, was seen as having sanctioned antiterrorist excesses by the regime of former President Alberto Fujimori; he scoffed at the accusations, writing that most human-rights groups were "fronts for Marxist and Maoist political movements...