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...conservative social stands. Once again he defined the sacrament of marriage as "an unbreakable alliance of total mutual self-giving . . . It is unconditional." But his tone was paternal rather than condemnatory. Though the church refuses Communion to those in second marriages, John Paul spoke to the divorced with sympathy: "Christ himself, the living source of grace and mercy, is close to all those whose marriage has known trial, pain or anguish. We must reach out with love, the love of Christ, to those who know the pain of failure in their marriages...
...arrived in Cardiff, Wales. His final Mass of the tour drew a turnout of 100,000 at Pontcanna Fields, the largest Christian gathering the city had ever witnessed. The peacemaking theme remained vivid: "In every place where human blood is shed, and in the power of the blood of Christ, may we find peace, reconciliation and eternal life...
Unforgettably, the Pope declared that he and Archbishop Runcie were pledged to the task of "praying and working for reconciliation and ecclesial unity according to the mind and heart of our Saviour Jesus Christ." In the cloisters after the joint service the two men sealed their pledge by grasping each other's shoulders in a bear hug-all this from a Pope who said he had never met an Anglican in his life until he and Runcie crossed paths during their tours of Africa in 1980. A top aide to Cardinal Hume, Monsignor George Leonard, later told TIME that...
...said, 'I'm sorry. He will get you and you should plan your life accordingly. The next night, Klingensmith was getting a drink of water: again the preacher approached, and, pointing to his white clerical collar, said "'Remember what this means...It means you will be a slave of Christ...
...special problem that the international dialogue must soon face directly. The reason: in 1896 Pope Leo XIII declared that Anglican orders are, and always have been, "absolutely null and utterly void," mainly because the 16th century ordination rite omitted the power of priests to offer a sacrifice of Christ in the Mass. Therefore Anglican Primate Runcie and other bishops are technically, in papal eyes, not ordained priests at all. (An added complication is Rome's insistence that women cannot be priests, while several Anglican churches, though not the Church of England, have ordained 400 women since...