MERCY FOR CRAZED ASSASSIN
Pope forgives VATICAN CITY: Four days after his narrow escape from death Pope John PaulII saidMass in his hospital room on the eve of his 61st birthday and later announced his personal forgiveness of the man who tried to kill him.
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Pope John Paul concelebrated Mass from his hospital bed and then taped a message that was heard by 30,000 people gathered in St. Peter's Square for what would have been his noon recitation of the Regina Coeli and blessing. Half a mile away in Santo Spirit() hospital two women who had been hit by bullets intended for the pope burst into tears when they heard the pontiffs words:
Taped message
"I am particularly close to the two persons wounded t ogether with me." Mrs Rose Hall, 21, from , Massachusetts but currently residing in West "I pray for that brother of German with her husband ours who shot me, and who is an Assembly of God whom I have sincerely minister suffered a shat- p ardoned. tered elbow in the assassi- "United with Christ, prination attempt and was est and victim, I offer my listed in satisfactory sufferings for the Church condition. and for the world. Anne Odre, a 58-year-old "To you, Mary, I repeat: resident of Buffalo, N.Y., `Totus tuus ego sum' (I was hit in the chest by a belong entirely to you)." stray bullet. Doctors are As official sources specureserving their opinion on late whether security will whether she is out of dan- clamp down on future gelr because of the critical papal audiences in the s urgery which was open and among the involved. c rowds, commentators The pope then made his remembered that Pope dramatic announcement of John Paul has faced up to his personal forgiveness the risk he runs on such occasions. for his assailant:
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" We have to make more effort at ecumenical activity and make our approach to ecumenism a lot more serious than we have" Bishop Quinn said this w eek. " We have all wanted to see a movement towards unity but we have eased off in our efforts to find ways to achieve more honestly the unity that Jesus Christ wants. Bishop Quinn who is the r epresentative of the archbishop on the reestablished ecumenical affairs committee of the archdiocese was speaking in preparation for the week of prayer for Christian Unity that A scension commences on Thursday May 28.
age every parish in the archdiocese to make a special effort during the Week of Prayer.
Other members of the new committee are Father W. Uren Si (chairman), Mr. John Cahill (vice chairman), Miss Pat Ryan (secretary) Mr. Bill Huxley, Mr. Reg Trainor, Sister Elizabeth Rogerson. The committee can be contacted through the secretary at 25 Dalkeith Road. Nedlands. Bishop Quinn said that there was no conflict between asserting Catholic He said that the commit- faith and urging Christians tee was hoping to encour- to accept one another.
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"There was no conflict in time to work to achieve the the Second Vatican Coun- truth that is in the church cil re-stating the one-ness and share it as widely and on the church founded by as clearly as possible with Jesus Christ and at the the whole of Christianity. same time announcing the obligation to re-unify the "If we can explain more divided sections of clearly what we really mean when we speak about Christianity. our teachings and our doctrines, at least we will have IDENTIFY lessened the danger of divthrough misunderDIFFERENCES ision stan Note *In preparation "There is one church, there is one truth and we for the Week of Prayer for have to find ways of getting Christian Unity all parover the barriers that have ishes have received mateial separated us, to identify .for prayer and study, a clearly the causes, to sample leaflet for a comunderstand more precisely bined service and a letter the differences, but all the from Archbishop Goody.
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