WASHINGTON -- President Bush, fresh from making plans for war against Iraq, met for 40 minutes Wednesday with Cardinal Pio Laghi, an emissary from the Vatican who made a last appeal for peace. ... In Rome, meanwhile, Pope John Paul II called on the world to fast for peace.
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Peace Activist Implores Pope to be 'Ultimate Human Shield'; 'Only person' who can stop Iraq war; ... And the Pope's emissary, Cardinal Pio Laghi, met with U.S. President George Bush in Washington yesterday. A White House spokesperson said Bush rejects the argument there's no moral justification for a war.
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Much of the Vatican's prestige as a listening post for diplomats grows out of its own long experience in the diplomatic arts, going back to the 5th century, when the first pontifical emissary was sent to Constantinople to represent the Pope at the Eastern Roman imperial court.
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America's Best Political Newsletter. ... while back in Rome the Pope "called on Roman Catholics worldwide to fast and pray for peace" ("Pope's Emissary Meets with Bush, Calls War 'Unjust,'" by Johanna Neuman, the Los Angeles Times, Mar 6, 2003; "Bush meets with Vatican envoy," Associated Press, cnn.com, Mar. 5, 2003).
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Pope's Emissary Meets With Bush, Calls War 'Unjust'; By Johanna Neuman; Los Angeles Times ; March 6, 2003; WASHINGTON -- President Bush, fresh from making plans for war against Iraq, met for 40 minutes Wednesday with Cardinal Pio Laghi, an emissary from the Vatican who made a last appeal for peace.
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It has also adumbrated an imperialist version of a new Americanist heresy, which more closely resembles American dispensational (and curiously anti-papist) fundamentalism than it does the teaching of Pope John Paul II.
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Home | Movies | Avril Lavigne | David Blaine | News & Blogs | More... ... Pope John Paul II is sending Cardinal James A. Hickey's predecessor as archbishop of Washington as the papal representative to the cardinal's funeral, church officials announced Monday.
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On the eve of the Iraq war the pope sent his personal emissary Cardinal Pio Laghi, the former papal nuncio in Washington, to see President Bush with a clear message: "There are still peaceful avenues within the context of the vast patrimony of international law and institutions which exist for that purpose.
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The wall is the one thing Benedict won't be able to miss. ... Mundher Amira plans to ask Pope Benedict XVI to help him and other Palestinian refugees return to their homes in Israel when he meets the pontiff at the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem on Wednesday.
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