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...Muslims together in a bond of peace. Unfortunately, it may take a few hundred years to improve these dysfunctional relationships. Because of all his efforts (including his support for the people who helped dismantle East European communism), Pope John Paul II should be named Diplomat of the Millennium! ROB BISHOP San Antonio, Texas...
Sandra and Don Duckworth will celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary together in June--after spending most of the past nine years apart. He's the director and CEO of the Bishop Museum, Hawaii's popular cultural and natural-history institution. She's a political consultant based in Alexandria...
...first 36 years of marriage, the Duckworths lived together. In the early days, Sandra often accompanied Don, then an entomologist for the Smithsonian, as he traveled the world collecting insects--at least six new moths were named after her. And when he got the Bishop Museum job in 1984, just after Sandra had been re-elected as Fairfax County supervisor, she and their three children moved with him to Honolulu. Both say that was the most difficult time of their marriage...
DIED. IGNATIUS KUNG, 98, exiled Shanghai bishop who spent 30 years in prison for promoting Roman Catholicism in communist China and who was secretly named a Cardinal in 1979 while jailed; in Stamford, Conn...
...predecessor currently in the process of beatification (Pius XII) may have been beyond his reach, given the complex and contested process by which the Vatican makes decisions. The absence of an apology for Pius XII didn't in any way diminish the power in the spectacle of the bishop of Rome making a heartfelt expression of solidarity with the victims of the Holocaust, before being embraced by a weeping survivor he'd known since his boyhood. This on a day when, in contrast to previous pontiffs who'd taught that the Jews' exile from their land had been punishment...