The Pope Goes Forth to Make Saints

THE WASHINGTON POST, April 28 — After trips this spring and summer to Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Canada, Guatemala and Mexico, Pope John Paul II will visit his native Poland from Aug. 16-19, reported The Washington Post.

Despite his poor health — he is thought to suffer from Parkinson's disease-the pope intends to continue his grueling travel schedule. He will lead celebrations of World Youth Day in Toronto and proclaim new saints in Guatemala and Mexico, including Juan Diego of Guadalupe. Juan Diego will be the second Catholic folk hero to be named a saint this year, after the June 16 canonization of the stigma-tist and mystic Padre Pio of Pietrelcina.

Pro-Condom Lobby Attacks Vatican in European Papers

PLANET OUT, April 30 — The British homosexual activist newspaper applauded the latest move by “Catholics for a Free Choice,” the Planned-Parenthood-funded organization that opposes Church teaching on most issues of sexual morality.

It seems that 29 members of the increasingly powerful European Parliament, “from Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, Spain and the United Kingdom” have signed their names to the full-page ads from “Catholics for a Free Choice” which appeared for the first time in Sunday's European Voice newspaper.

The ads read, in part, “Catholic bishops preach sanctity of life. But their ban on condoms contributes to the tragedy of AIDS and death around the world. Most Catholics disagree with this policy.”

Neither the advertisement nor Planet Out makes mention of the documented connection between promiscuity and AIDS, or the connection between monogamy and prevention of the disease.