Understanding World Events and Trends - Plain Truth Staff - October 1985

Plain Truth Staff

Pope Calls for European Unity * Quakes and Computers * Alcohol Abuse and the Unborn * China, India Enjoy Bumper Crops * The New Pirates * Aswan Dam: Mixed Blessing * Violent Crime and You * - Why fly into a hornet's nest? Pope John Paul II well knew that his journey through Holland would stir up old and bitter antagonisms. Risks were there. Greater divisiveness in the Dutch church could well have been the net result. Said The Spectator in its sum-up article , "For the first time, the Pope seems to have failed to carry a country with him by the force of his personality." The Pope was under pressure in Holland. Yet one has to admit he did not flinch. He came down as hard as ever in support of traditional Catholic teaching. He defended his Dutch appointees without apology. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library