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Pastimes : JFK Jr., Is this an assasination? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (512)	9/3/1999 8:14:00 AM
From: MNI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542

CharleyMane, the guy who knew too many names for himself :-), (o.k., I like you anyway), it wasn't that I actually said that. Anyway, Dr. Martin Luther was professor of theology in the catholic church of the time. What else should he have been, given there was only one church around? And who else should have taken care of knowledge in the first universities, than those whose profession it was? I disagree that all universities were modeled on those first ones. But ah, you said 'great'. If this is meant to describe a certain selection of unis, I would like to know first which are the ones that are 'great'. If you simply want to say that a university can only be great when it emulates those first ones in every detail (or maybe some details that were to be somehow specifically Catholic), I think I should protest you. Hey, and don't misunderstand, I am not a catholic-basher, and I am not from outside, (or at least not in all ways of meaning that could be attached to the word). I think it is wrong to assume that Pope John Paul II is 'surrounded by sharks' as you surprisingly told me. Just the contrary. Karol Wojtyla has had 20 years of time to pervade every single office in the Vatican and outside with outspoken (or secret) supporters of him. The number of Cardinals has been strongly increased, all new cardinals were chosen by the Pope, of course. Of course it is not the way you use if you want to make friends with everybody who already had a position. But if a Pope had to be reelected, it was sure that he would be now, and even with a higher majority than when he was. Of course the Roman Catholic church is not a representative democracy and does not have any responsibility to such principles. Regards MNI.