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...circumstances of the President's first visit overseas since taking office. There will be a meeting with other Western leaders at Versailles, with a formal dinner in the fabled Hall of Mirrors and a king's bedroom for Reagan in the Grand Trianon. Then on to Rome to meet the Pope, as well as Italy's President and Prime Minister. In Britain the old celluloid trouper will canter with the Queen through Windsor Great Park before becoming the first U.S. President ever to address members of both houses of Parliament. Finally, after a NATO summit session...
...substance of the opening of this six-day event, was the red-robed figure of John Paul II, the Pope of love, controversy and ecumenical vision. Sitting on the cathedral's high-backed throne, with high-ranking British clergy standing beneath and beside, was the Pope of Rome, whose claims to authority covered both heaven and earth. Yet this was a down-to-earth Roman Pontiff, who had gamely come to Britain in the face of a nasty South Atlantic war and a persistent antipapal spirit in the British Isles. Said John Paul, simply: "Today, for the first time...
...risk more for the sake of unity than any of his predecessors. In an exclusive interview with TIME, Runcie stuck to his view that "the Roman Catholic Church is overcentralized" but pointed to the usefulness of the papacy as "a focus for unity and affection" that was "given to Rome from the days of the early church." He believes Rome "can give a great deal to us in terms of doctrinal coherence." Runcie said that his central problem is this: "The idea [that] you have to go to Rome for ethical decisions, for doctrinal clarification, for liturgical permissions...
...ties. A travel agency in Atlanta is doing good business taking American blacks to Africa to try the old genetic recessional: Americans in their retrospective dream. Religion has always driven travelers, from the wild Deus volt of the First Crusade to more peaceful pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Mecca, Lourdes and Rome...
Western Europeans were less concerned with the substance of Reagan's proposal than with the fact that he had at last made one. The President is scheduled to travel to Paris, Rome, London, Bonn and West Berlin in three weeks, and he faces the prospect of large street demonstrations by members of the Continent's burgeoning peace movement. In Bonn, as many as 150,000 protesters are expected to mass on the banks of the Rhine across from the building where Reagan will be meeting with the leaders of other North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations. The tone...