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...evidence that Gorbachev's drive for democracy and openness is serious seemed to grow even as the problems of the Communist world worsened. En route to Malta, Gorbachev stopped in Rome to visit John Paul II. His momentous meeting with the Pope marked the beginning of the end of more than 70 years of antagonism between the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church. The first Soviet Communist Party boss to set foot on Vatican soil, Gorbachev conferred with the Pope for an unexpectedly long 75 minutes in the library of the 16th century Apostolic Palace. Addressing John Paul...
...effort, the Kremlin's policy has been not to liquidate the church but to infiltrate and control it. For that reason, the Soviet regime has always preferred docile Russian-led Orthodox and Protestant churches to Catholicism, which is more independent and led by a feisty Pope in Rome...
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Christopher Redman, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Rome: Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton, Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Bangkok: Ross H. Munro Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central America: John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...
...Normally, international conferences at the Vatican are carefully staged and well modulated. Such was the expectation last week as 1,000 theologians, church officials, health workers and top-flight scientists gathered in Rome for the first Vatican meeting on AIDS. But the script was quickly ripped up as the three-day conference was disrupted by a sign-wielding protester, dissident caucuses and angry charges and countercharges. At one point the conference's organizer, Archbishop Fiorenzo Angelini, had a tense confrontation with an AIDS victim who had sought to speak to the group...
London: William Mader, Anne Constable Paris: Christopher Redman, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Rome: Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, Ann Blackman Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton, Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Bangkok: Ross H. Munro Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central America: John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...