Word: catholicization
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The drive to "save" Elian may, in fact, reflect a generational concern, even if it contains mixed messages - exile activists insist that sending Elian home to grow up in Castro's Cuba would be profoundly inhumane, and yet it's hard to imagine that a strongman who's about to...
And what might all this frenzied activity accomplish, politically? It was hard to imagine. This was not Poland or Cuba, where populations and even leaders who had grown up Catholic afforded papal leverage. (The percentage of Christians in the Holy Land, including both Israel and the Palestinian territories, has decreased...
As Father Remi Hoeckman, John Paul's point man for Catholic-Jewish relations, put it, "The Holy See does not want to interfere, but...we want to reach a point at which the Holy Land can set an example for the rest of humankind, which it's definitely not doing...
The Pope's speeches were well-crafted humanitarian statements amplifying the Palestinians' need without upsetting the applecart. Arafat's wife Suha, a devout Catholic prior to her marriage who still decorates the walls of her Gaza apartment with photos of John Paul, claimed that the Holy Father's very presence...
And she did, tears streaming down her face as that strapping young priest--now the frail, elderly Pontiff--laid his hand gently on her arm. After meeting Zierer and five other survivors in the memorial's Hall of Remembrance, John Paul opened his heart. Recalling "friends and neighbors" who perished...