Melbourne writer PAT CONNELLY continues his story of the life and achievements of Karol Wojtyla, who became Pope John Paul II. His story, continues today on pages 6, 7,8 a
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ASSISI: The pope called on the world to lay down its arms on the day of peace, and many guerilla groups answered this request by declaring truces and ceasefires. During the day dramatic news flashes were lssued from all around the world.
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• the army in El Salvador gave orders not to shoot; • Guerilla groups in Kampuchea said they were willing to adhere to the pope's call; • The Tamils in Sri lanks agreed to hold their fire, as did the Sri lankan government; •Israel issued the order: no operations; • Angola declared the truce would be kept; • in Lebanon, leaders of the three Christian militias and leaders of the Sunni and Shi'ite Moslems told local religious leaders they would lay down their arms for the day; • the "Polisario front", which has been fighting a guerilla war against Morocco for more than 10 years, called the papal initiative "a direct contribution to peace in the world";
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VATICAN CITY: The
particular inclination of the homosexual person, while it is not in itself a sin, is a more 000 or less strong • the Chilean left-wing group involved in the tendency to behaviour a t t e m p t e d which is intrinsically assassination of President Pinochet said evil from the moral It would refrain from point of view, and armed action; should therefore be • Columbia's largest left-wing guerilla group, considered objectively the Revolutionary disordered itself. Armed Forces of This is the Vatican's Colombia, accepted the truce; own summary of the • the main guerilla force moral position fighting Nicaragua's Sandinista government outlined in a Letter to suspended operations; bishops from the • the Philippine government promised Congregation for the to hold fire in their fight Doctrine of the Faith. with rebels; and ·the IRA offered a (The full text of the truce provided British Letter had not reached troops and police in Australia this week.) Northern remained barracks.
The Grade One pupils of St Benedict's School, Applecross did
The document calls for a conversion to chastity
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through joining efforts to the sufferings of the Cross and The Resurrection. the summary says: "Already in 1975 the Congregation treated this question in its "Declaration on Certain Questions of Sexual
Ethics", and defined homosexual acts as ''intrinsically disordered". that "Although declaration repeated the made commonly distinction between homosexual activity and the homoseuxal
condition or tendency, some found grounds therein to consider the condition neutral or even good. 'The Church in her preaching and in her celebration of the Sacrament of Matrimony
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