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Voluntary community participation has been the key to success. In Atlanta, schoolchildren collected a veritable mountain of discarded aluminum cans, worth about 23? per lb. at recycling centers, while youngsters and adult volunteers joined in planting trees and shrubs to turn empty lots into picturesque pocket parks. In Rome, volunteers cleaned up roadside ditches and trash-filled yards-and transformed a riverfront hangout for drunks and derelicts into a park that now attracts joggers and cyclists. Macon undertook a similar program, spending several million dollars to upgrade its sanitation department and establish a recycling center...
...world that is much with John Paul back in Rome is that of the West, where new theologians question church doctrines, while churches and seminaries increasingly stand half empty. In Africa, though, Christianity is burgeoning faster than anywhere else in the world. It is a creed to be lived and enjoyed, not debated. On Sunday mornings, people will walk for miles to get to a Mass or a Protestant service. The streets in many villages become deserted; everyone is at church, having a good time...
...much Africanization is permitted, the church will pull away from Rome; but if Africanization is not .permitted, the churches here will be empty." The Pope paid tribute to the African experience: "Your church has been grafted on the great tree of the church, where, for 100 years, it has drawn its sap, which now permits it to give its fruits to the church and to become itself missionary to others. Your church will have to deepen its local African dimension, without ever forgetting its universal dimension. I know your fervent attachment to the Pope. I say also to you: Through...
Runcie, 58, is anxious for good relations with Rome. Like John...
Instead of succumbing to this uncertainty, Hellman illustrates it. For her ostensible subject, she chooses Sarah Cameron, a rich, frivolous American woman who has dropped briefly into Hellman's life at widely separated times and places: Rome, rural France, Hollywood, Harlem. She is evidently pseudonymous and may be fictional as well. It hardly matters here. What matters to Hellman is that Sarah's story seems beyond the author's powers to tell. "Why am I writing about Sarah?" she wonders. "I really only began to think about her a few years ago, and then not often. Although...