------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | New on Goanet's website's A&E section - http://www.goanet.org | | Book in Review: A Kind of Absence - Joao da Veiga Coutinho | | POEM: SUSEGAAD - Cynthia Gomes James | | http://www.goanet.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=216 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am disappointed, but not surprized, that the Pope's first encyclical does not deal with war and poverty, the two major issues of our times (including their related problems).
Instead the focus on love and sex, an endless fascination with the Vatican - celibacy, marital sex, etc. It also seems a favorite Western topic, reflected in the media & movies when significant attention ought to be paid to war and poverty issues. See http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060118/en_afp/vaticanpope_060118114743 Regards, George
