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...scene. The long countdown to the November elections is already well begun as the race to become Ronald Reagan's Democratic challenger fills columns of print and hours on the air waves. The summertime conventions seem only a blink away. But July will bring another memorable event: the XXIII Olympiad, the largest Olympic Games ever organized and the first Summer Games held in the U.S. in 52 years. And almost as a prelude comes the first spectacular, the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. There the U.S. is thrusting into competition its most balanced and impressive team ever, one that...
...whole world expects a step forward," said John XXIII as he opened the Second Vatican Council in October 1962. When Pope Paul VI formally closed it last week, he heralded it as "among the greatest events of the church." Whatever the future's judgment, there can be little doubt that the council indeed represents a momentous step forward in carrying Christendom's oldest, largest body into modern times and bringing it into closer contact with all men-religious...
When Pope John XXIII opened the window, he expected fresh air. Instead, he got a hurricane...
...code is the latest manifestation of the church renewal begun by the Second Vatican Council, which ended in 1965. Indeed, Pope John XXIII proposed a revision of canon law in the same 1959 speech that announced his intention to summon the council. The new document is infused with the liberalizing spirit of Vatican II; it is far more pastoral in tone than the 1917 code, recognizing the rights of Catholics and minimizing penalties. For example, the number of ecclesiastical offenses that call for automatic excommunication has been reduced from 37 to seven (one of them is having or procuring...
...Protestant missionaries, who began arriving in force in the 19th century, condemned the rich Catholic landowners and military elites, and were severely persecuted. As recently as the decade ending in 1958, there were 126 Protestants killed, 279 schools closed and 60 churches destroyed in Colombia alone. After Pope John XXIII took office in 1958, attacks on Latin America's Protestants abated. Today, by contrast, Catholic missionaries have strongly aligned themselves with the poor, encouraging them to fight for social justice. Pope John Paul II has supported his priests in this cause, as long as they do not become directly...