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...church is also relaxing long standing requirements about miracles. "The conviction is growing," a Vatican official told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn, "that other, 'signs' should be accepted, such as a great number of extraordinary 'favors' or 'graces' that can be proved and attested by serious investigation." All those beatified last week, including Kateri Tekakwitha, took a giant step toward sainthood without benefit of any fully authenticated miracles...
...practiced, and there has been discussion about the possibility of admitting polygamous men to full membership in the church. But John Paul does not feel free to follow local customs on celibacy. During a chat with reporters on the flight to Kinshasa the Pope told TIME'S Wilton Wynn, "The situation is the same everywhere. The difficulties are as great for men everywhere. What counts is not the situation, but the dedication of the heart." Repeating the theme shortly after landing, he informed a group of priests that celibacy is the sign of their "total consecration...
...Faith decides a professor is not orthodox, Baum will handle official discipline. He concurred in the recent decision to investigate Belgian Theologian Edward Schillebeeckx and to banish West Germany's Hans Küng from a Roman Catholic faculty. The church, Baum insisted to TIME'S Wilton Wynn, has a "just claim" on its theologians: "Our task is to present the message of Christ as transmitted by the Roman Catholic Church. The public has the right to know clearly what this message is, and what...
TIME Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn reports that the housing shortage in this city of 1.2 million is so bad (an average 2.8 persons to a room, four to a room in the worst slums) that one newly married couple was forced to live separately, the bride with her parents, the groom with his. The couple found privacy for lovemaking only in their tiny Fiat, parked on a dark street. But even so triumphant a Fiat accompli was rudely interrupted last month by bandits who held up the pair while they were enjoying their cramped privacy...
...frequent run-ins with his zealous protectors were the mixed blessings of reporting for this week's 21-page special report on the Pope's historic visit to the U.S. TIME assigned 20 correspondents and stringers to back up the firsthand accounts of Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, who traveled on the Pontiffs plane from Italy to Ireland and around...