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...Council of Trent in the 16th century but in this case put through by the willpower of a single personality. Unlike John XXIII, who had led a sheltered life in seminaries and nunciatures, John Paul was a man of the world who had suffered under Nazism and communism. He was a philosopher, poet and dramatist, but also a very experienced fund raiser and administrator. His pastoral experience was determinative. In Poland he had founded and run perhaps the most successful marriage institute in Christianity, set up to deal with the problems of marital discord, family planning, illegitimacy and venereal disease...
...thinks that sexual sins -- I call those pelvic sins -- are the big going-to-hell sins, and I don't believe that." Mike Tobin, a deeply committed Catholic who helped organize the gym Mass, says, "Rome is very irrelevant to me. I'm thankful the Pope helped shut down communism, but in many ways I disagree with most of what he says. There are a lot of goofy rules...
...adds, ". . . and of Nature's God." Wisely so. The past 200 years have shown that nature is a distressingly malleable concept. It is a philosopher's parlor trick to collapse it into history (nature in time) or will (nature in us). When such philosophies seeped into politics, they spawned communism and Nazism. It is also true that God -- and various gods -- has covered a multitude of political sins over the millenni. But in the modern world, rights fare best when they are derived from a Source men fear to tamper with...
RONALD REAGAN IS A LIVING LEGEND FOR many outside the U.S., including the Poles and others in Eastern Europe. Reagan was an outstanding personality who destroyed communism with his strong policy. Who knows what might have happened to Eastern Europe if it had not been for Reagan? For many people, he is a fighter. I believe he will fight this battle to the end, supported by millions of people all over the world...
...language" a letter he wrote while a Harvard undergrad claiming the U.S. Army promoted "fascist, totalitarian regimes. " That letter and others -- written to his father, former Sen. Albert Gore, Sr., and disclosed this week in The New Yorker -- included inflammatory passages, such as: "We do have inveterate antipathy for Communism -- or paranoia as I like to put it. My own belief is that this form of psychological ailment -- in this case a national madness -- leads the victim to actually create the thing which is feared the most. It strikes me that this is precisely what the U.S. has been doing...