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...they love an elder, affectionate and powerful sister, and that is enough to give them happiness. Jacques Euzeby Marcy l'Etoile, France It was wonderful to see Mary on TIME's cover. She is humanity's greatest friend and intercessor but never takes or shares the place of Jesus. Discussing her role as intercessor, however, without mentioning her apparitions and the miracles associated with her at Fatima, Lourdes, Guadalupe, etc., is akin to discussing Christ without mentioning his Passion. Frank Buono New York City Yet another issue of time that made me wonder whether I have subscribed to a newsmagazine...
MARY UNDERSTANDS ME AS A MOTHER does. She is my ideal. She epitomizes goodness, faithfulness and devotion. She was Jesus' first disciple, and she was with him from his first breath to his last...
...second revolution brought to completion by John Paul II is in the church's relationship to the Jewish people. Again, the shift began with Vatican II. The 1965 declaration Nostra Aetate famously renounced the "Christ killer" slander, the Gospel charge that the Jews are guilty of the murder of Jesus. This was the source of Christian contempt for the Jewish people, a tradition that the Nazis brought to the perverse conclusion of the Holocaust...
...permanent point of moral reckoning; affirming the right of Jews to be at home in Israel, which he formally recognized in 1994. In reverencing the Western Wall in Jerusalem in 2000, the Pope reversed the ancient Christian denigration of the Temple of Israel, renouncing forever the idea that because Jesus is the "new Temple," Judaism is "replaced" by Christianity. And through that, the Pope affirmed a new Catholic principle of religious pluralism, with future significance for its relationship with other faiths as well...
...bells began tolling at 10:37 Saturday night, an hour after he breathed his last. Thus passed Karol Jozef Wojtyla, Vicar of Jesus Christ and head of the billion-member Roman Catholic Church, dead at 84 after a life spent walking in Christ's rugged path...