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Article: Waldheim: The Pope Should Have Said No
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- The Washington Post
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- June 23, 1987
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Every New Year's, the pope issues a call for world peace, and
every year the world ignores him. The papacy's sorry record in this
area is never taken into account by the world press. It always
carries his message, and it does so for two worthwhile reasons: the
pope is both the leader of the Roman Catholic Church and a figure of
towering moral standing. When it comes to peace, would that his wish
were our command.
But the present pope, John Paul II, seems to have lost sight of
his special responsibility as a universal moral figure.
Specifically, he has agreed to meet with Kurt Waldheim, the president
of Austria-the Catholic head of state of a mostly Catholic nation.
But Waldheim is also ...