Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 19, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free May 1985 study suggests Camel could talk himself through the Needles Eye by Mick Brown the sunday Lontoft if you Ever suspected that god smiles on the the powerful and the you May be if you have Ever fancied that god is actually speaking to and thought twice about sharing the take you Are not reassuring evidence of the pres ence of the divine and less reas Suring evidence that he might just be exercising favouritism has come with the results of an unusual Gallup poll which suggests that 33 per cent of people in Britain have had some sort of religious expert and that such experiences Are More Likely to occur among the materially Rich than the the poll coincides with the presentation recently of the annual Templeton prize for Progress in religion to sir Alister the eminent British who has devoted the larger part of his life to exploring his belief that religious experience is a provable biological the Gallup poll was personally initiated by George Gallup who Learned of hardys award and was so intrigued he flew to Britain from the United states to meet the it was Hardy who originally framed the question put to people in Britain by the Gallup pollsters have you Ever experienced of been aware of a presence or whether you Call it god or that is begot to your everyday self god does hot discriminate on sex Ual those who acknowledge some sort of religious experience Are divided almost equally Between men and according to the religious experience tends to occur More frequently in the High income some form of experience reported by 44 per cent of professional and managerial 35 per cent of White 29 per cent of Blue Collar and 28 per cent of but speculation that god indeed helps those who help of that membership of the Tennis club and a second mortgage is the key to the kingdom of heaven should be David director of the religious experience research project at Nottingham believes the discrepancy Between the classes is less to do with income than with a cultural perception of the better educated somebody the More in touch they Are with the language and concepts of religious the More Able they Are to recognise acid express these he working on behalf of the religious experience research unit How the Listef Hardy research Centre in Hay posed the Hardy question to a similar Sam ple in and produced almost exactly the same he says that those who have had religious experiences Are often reluctant to talk about for fear of being thought deluded or fool the least surprising revelation of the Gallup poll is that religious experiences tend to come with Only 25 per cent of people aged Between 16 and 24 claim some sort of compared to 36 per cent of people aged Between 45 and Pope John Paul displays various expressions As he listens to a Call for a greater role for women in the his visit to Holland also raised worrisome dutch revolt raises question of papal focus by Bruce Buursma Chicago Tribune Brussels Pope John Paul ii has compiled a portfolio of mental snapshots of the ferment in the roman Catholic Church during his soon trend 11 Day trip to the a Keepsake album of worrisome impressions that could affect the future of his the Broad cleavage in the Church Over questions the polish born Pon Tiff regards As nonnegotiable May prompt John Paul to now direct his attention to internal Catholic rapprochement and in 25 previous foreign Pilgrim Ages during his never before has the Pope encountered so directly the doctrinal Dis sent As voiced by dutch catholics during the first leg of this the dismay Over the Church teachings on birth con priestly celibacy and papal authority is pronounced throughout much of the Western of but on this the signs of full scale revolt against those strictures have been stunningly visible to the a turn inward by the Pope would result in a further disengagement dissent Sparks theory of Popes next move in pastoral diplomacy by the Vatican from serious ecumenical contacts with other Chris Tian an Enterprise to which John Paul has paid Little More than lip but it also might mean the Pope would devote less Energy to his role As a world Leader and Media which he has thus far played with vigor As head of both an 800 million member Church and an in dependent Sovereign Darker Side the scope of catholicism crisis is by no Means restricted to the highly developed countries of the industrialized in whose Terri tory the Pope frequently has expressed misgivings Over the Darker Side of technological achievement and hedonistic secular John Paul also is facing the Chal Lenges posed by the theological themes of liberation that have emerged most forcefully in latin America and he also must contend with a feisty band of self anointed guard ians of Catholic who repudiate Many of the reforms adopted at the Church second vat ican Council 20 years it is a Rich and perplexing tableau for a pontiff who has embarked on a Resolute Campaign for the Restora Tion of catholicism at the close of christianity second the who is fond of urging the Church to be a sign of Contra diction in the has approached the task with his own set of at once insisting on firm adherence to traditional doctrines but also proclaiming the need for the Church to work in the modern John Pauls vision of the Church and his View of modernity have been shaped by his experiences in where the Catholic Church Long has been the most influential social it is the political nature of the Church in the where More democratic traditions prevail and catholicism is not necessarily the predominant that stands As a particularly vexing Issue for the free inquiry the notion of free theological in Quiry and the Ever enlarging role accorded to Lay members of the Church Are strongly held by catholics in Western Europe and the United the Pope has undertaken the Deli Cate assignment of drawing limitations on those freedoms without crushing the religious enthusiasm of the scholars and in an address to Lay workers Fri Day in the pontiff illustrated his allegiance to that philos Church must be he As a Community of com passion and but at the same time it must witness to the truth and be by clearly showing that there remains an irreversible contradiction Between what is evil and what is Good according to gods that sense of pastoral diplomacy also was on display in Holland when the Pope chose not to read the Ster nest sections of his prepared addressing a delegation of protestant the Pope deleted a statement that Catholic Fidelity to the Bible and years of tradition forced him to reject proposals for women ordination and sharing the lords supper across denominational a spokesman said the statement was deleted because of time con dutch Reform were dismayed when they read a full account of the papal message in the next Days the Pope also eliminated from his spoken message to catholics in Den Bosch a Curt explanation of his in popular appointment of a right Wing Bishop to a local the Pope has to take the the original text must he explain his Choice discretion does not per Mit him to do on the air plane from Amsterdam to docile Luxembourg last members of the pontiffs entourage said Only half jokingly they were pleased to escape from the dutch trip with their lives and limbs the who is said to have a Long managed to cast the Holland Stop in largely Neutral asserting that he envisioned the possibility for a Renaissance of catholicism among the Blooming Tulip lie it was Clear that he failed in his Mission to bring reconciliation to the generally Liberal and Blun spoken dutch even though the crowds in Luxembourg and Belgium have been considerably larger and More cheerful than in few observers in those countries Are expecting the papal visit to reverse the anaemic enthusiasm for Church regulations and mass to visit Africa John Pauls next scheduled Pil Grimage is a seven nation tour of Africa in it is a religious Community whose dramatic growth and occasionally awkward vibrancy the pontiff finds especially a it is the Only confirmed papal tour before the extraordinary world Synod of Catholic Bishops convenes at the Vatican in no vember for a two week look at the legacy of Vatican out of which so much current Catholic activism that meeting also May be a time when the Pope vividly recalls his tumultuous Spring Holiday khad Afy hails Sudan revolution khad Afy oust reactionaries Khartoum a Libya Moa mar khad Afy paid a Surprise visit to Sudan congratulated his North african neighbor for overthrowing its reactionary regime and called on other Arab countries to follow the libyan a bitter foe of deposed president Gaafar said that by its coup last the sudanese military has Given the example of How armies can take the Side of the he urged Arab people to liberate their i also Call on the armies in the Arab world to join the masses and oust reactionary khad Afy the libyan Leader then flew to saudi Arabia for a meeting with King official sources in Jidida no de tails were but Arab diplomatic sources said khad Afy and the King planned to examine ways to end the 4y2year old Ira Iraq support the palestinian quest for an Independent state and improve saudi libyan relations betwee saudi Arabia and Libya were at their lowest ebb in 1982 when khad Afy blamed the kingdom for the glut in world Oil markets Khz Adays four hour visit continued the process of gradually improving relations Between the two which began soon after Sudan april 6 Libya was the first country to recognize the new government that ended Nim eiris 16 years As stayed in Airport the Radical Arab leaders trip to the sudanese capital was spent almost entirely inside the terminal at Khartoum he stepped outside Only for a Brief walk in a parking he met in the Airport vip lounge with Abdulrahman Swa Redda coup Leader and chairman of the governing transitional military and prime minister Al Ghazouly Dafa allays mainly civilian Cabinet is administering Sudan under the councils direction during a promised oneyear transition to full civilian thousands of sudanese gathered at the Airport and chanted slogans supporting khad Afy and Arab Unity and denouncing today the libyan Leader holds his head High in Khartoum the crowd shout Khz Adays trip to Sudan followed visits to the East african countries of Burundi and there has been no indication Libya plans financial Aid to the strapped sudanese Libya has said it will Stop sup plying arms to no moslem rebels in South Ern Sudan in an attempt to Stop a civil War that is said to Cost the Khartoum government million a Early this Khz Adays top Abdelsalam headed a Dele gation to Khartoum that signed a strongly worded communique denouncing partial and separate agreements in the Middle the reference apparently was to the Camp David peace treaty Between Israel and Sudan closest Argentina puts 120day freeze on foreign currency accounts times news service Buenos Aires Argentine officials said yesterday that the government had Frozen All Dollar accounts for a period of 120 the announced near was made to Stem an increase in withdrawals that began a week ago when the government closed a Large it acted after the Central Bank decided that the Banks difficulties were too great to be overcome by further the decision to freeze Dollar accounts was looked on by Bankers As a positive move because it will prob ably Avert More Bank financial said the governments mishandling of the Bank closure provoked the run on dollars and had thrown into doubt the completion of a billion loan from foreign the freeze on Dollar accounts affects million to other for eign currency accounts were Frozen As argentines and foreign companies Are permitted to maintain uninsured Dollar savings accounts and to receive their interest payments in in an Effort to keep Pace with argentines buy dollars on the Black Market with pesos and Deposit the dollars in their the inflation rate is running a rate of 910 per the immediate effect of freezing the accounts will be to give the government time to assess the financial situation of troubled Banks without the pressure of trying to cover Banks in need of the government has Given those savers who have accounts coming due before 120 Days the option of buying Dollar Den nominated Bonds that can be sold on the open the action is in defence of savers and of the Community As a whose Normal functioning requires the permanence of a solid financial a communique changes in system the increase in Dollar withdrawals began More than a month ago when the government announced several changes in the banking is hard to say Why it started then and not a banker maybe people began to think that if the Central Bank made those it might also nationalize the withdrawals picked up in the last week after the government closed the Banco de italia y Rio de la a Bank with million to million in uninsured Dollar deposits and Mil lion in foreign it is the kind of time when people Are putting their Money under mat a government official said when asked about Dollar the government declined to by How much Money had been with drawn from savings accounts that reached maturity during the last a banker said it is fair to say that every private Argentine local Bank is losing 100 to 90 per cent of its Dollar deposits As they come up for the private which hold 20 per cent of the Dollar Are viewed As the most vulnerable because of the Public perception that the govern ment would do More to keep a state Bank in the past two eight private Banks have been the Banco de italia being the Bankers said the governments failure to clarify How it would handle Banco de Talias Dollar deposits created confusion making depositors More Likely to with draw their the absence q a government policy on Banco de Talias foreign debt has also created concern among eign creditors who Are putting together a billion loan the loan is contingent on a new agreement with the International monetary there is no Way Banks Are 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