Macleans - Toronto, ON, Canada
Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete, national spiritual director of the Communion and Liberation movement in the United States, offered a different view. For John Paul, he argued, the most important form of communication was live theatre, because it was an encounter not only with the words but with the body of the other.
John Paul, who as a young man had trained in the theatre, believed that the whole person was engaged in the encounter, which made it truly human. Later in life, John Paul lived his pontificate most fully not in his teaching documents, but in the "live theatre" of the liturgy, his audiences and his travels. As the crowds queued up to see his body, I was much taken with that insight.
TV keeps focus on white smoke
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
On MSNBC, Chris Matthews saw an interesting sign in the new pope's choice of his name, because the last Benedict was a peacemaker during World War I. But on CNN, Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete pointed to St. Benedict as the probable inspiration.
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