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...Reporting on the Vatican is one of the busiest and most productive assignments available to a correspondent," says TIME Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn. He should know: for all but five of the past 22 years he has been on that beat (from 1974 to 1979, Wynn was based in Cairo). He has contributed to eleven cover stories on the Roman Catholic Church and on four Popes, beginning with John XXIII. "But covering Pope John Paul II has been especially gratifying," says Wynn. "He has a real knack for getting into the news. Altogether, TIME has done eight cover stories...
...advantage to getting older," says Wynn. "If you hang around long enough, your lower-echelon contacts eventually move up to positions of eminence." Says Associate Editor Richard Ostling, TIME's Religion writer since 1975 and the author of this week's cover story on the state of the church: "Wilton Wynn is one of the finest reporters of this generation, and a key part of TIME's Vatican coverage." Ostling is not alone in that view. During the return flight from Argentina in 1982, as Wynn approached with a question, John Paul grabbed both his hands and, with a broad...
...Galileo said, quoting a churchman of his day, "The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach how to go to heaven and not how go the heavens." That is surely a credo any contemporary astronomer, indeed any 20th century scientist, can accept. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Wilton Wynn/Rome
...once impossible step is about to be taken. Last week a highly placed source told TIME Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn that the U.S. and the Vatican have agreed in principle to establish full diplomatic relations and that the official announcement will occur any day. The Holy See has 102 accredited ambassadors, but it has long been concerned that three major powers, the U.S., the Soviet Union and China, are not formally represented. The Vatican has been particulary eager to win U.S. recognition...
...relative moderate. He signed a disengagement agreement with Israel over the Golan Heights in 1974. He sent his army into Lebanon in 1976 to save the Maronite Christians from defeat by the Palestine Liberation Organization and a coalition of leftist Muslim forces. He told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn in 1977 that he was ready to make peace with the Israelis if they would withdraw from the territory they had captured in the 1967 war. But in the past three years, as he has fought against internal challenges, Assad's regime has become increasingly bloody and repressive. In the region...