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...obvious stir he was creating. Said one member of the Pope's entourage: "He is a good dash man but not a miler. He gets awfully tired after a sprint. But the crowd scenes and the youth meetings seem to inject adrenaline into his veins." Concluded Glasgow Catholic Archbishop Thomas Winning: "This was his hardest mission. The British are a phlegmatic people, yet he captured them completely...
...service was conducted near the very spot where the 12th century Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket was slain by the Anglican King's men for his loyalty to Pope and church. The rite moved determinedly through history, even commemorating modern martyrs who died of religious persecution. And after this emotional service, John Paul and the other churchmen lunched, to talk of matters ecumenical and, one assumes, fraternal...
...church. Before John Paul's dramatic Mass for peace at the Vatican the weekend before last, with both British and Argentine Cardinals concelebrating, the lines were well formed. Arrayed in favor from the start were the British bishops. Opposed were key members of the Curia-and, most notably, Archbishop Ubaldo Calabresi, the papal nuncio in Argentina. Backing Calabresi were the Pope's top aide, Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli; Archbishop Achille Silvestrini, his "foreign minister," who had once favored the trip but turned against the idea when the battles began; and Sebastiano Cardinal Baggio, prefect...
...Gospel considerably less attractive to the growing number of skeptics in the West. Most fundamentally, the churches recognize the vision of Christian reunion in Jesus Christ's prayer for his followers before his Crucifixion: "That they may all be one ... so that the world may believe." This, says Archbishop Runcie, is "an imperative of the Gospel...
...this emotionally rife history is still well taught in British schools. "The English think that the most important event of the Elizabethan age," explains Anglican Historian Henry Chadwick, who is also an adviser to Archbishop Runcie, "was the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, when the King of Spain sent a fleet to conquer the English ships and to invade and impose Roman Catholicism on the people. When people say the Pope ought not to come, they are saying that something like the Spanish Armada is on our doorstep again. They have a notion that one last ship...