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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, NOVEMBER 18, 19a6
Any remaining calls would be routed to one of the other
backup systems.
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In-home calls would be diverted to the campus telephone
system (Northern Telecom) and handled by our operators in
Pasadena.
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All calls could be sent to Big Sandy in case we were
unable to take them in Pasadena.
This would be
accomplished by use of equipment called the Routing
Control Service (RCS).
•
A computer in the Hall of Administration could be used as
a backup control unit should our SWIFT control unit go
down.
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Another special computer in the office of John Prohs (head
of Technical Operations for the Work) is available as a
secondary backup control unit.
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
ON THE WORLD SCENE
LATEST PAPAL TRIP; VATICAN'S CONFLICT WITH AMERICAN CATHOLICISM;
BEHIND-THE-SCENES UNITY PROCESS IN EUROPE
The Pope's Latest Travels On November 18, Pope John Paul II departed on
the longest and most grueling journey of his papacy, a 31,000-mile journey
to Bangladesh, Singapore, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia and the Seychelles.
During the two-week journey, his 32nd journey outside Italy, the Pope will
celebrate 15 masses and deliver more than 50 addresses. Reported the
REUTER news agency on November 11:
The 66-year-old Pope is famed for his toughness and
endurance•••but this trip will test his endurance to the limit.
Within the vast continent of Australia the Pope will travel
6,000 miles in six and one half days. On November 29, he will
travel from Melbourne to Darwin in the extreme north, then to
Alice Springs in the center of the continent and on to Adelaide
on the south coast.
During the journey temperatures are
expected to reach 95 degrees••••
Only about 18 percent of Australians regularly go to church and
among young people indifference to Christianity is widespread.
Catholics make up just over a quarter of the population of
nearly 16 million with a roughly equal percentage of
Anglicans.... The Church in Australia is also facing strong
demands for both married and women priests, ideas repeatedly
rejected by Pope John Paul•••• During his two-day visit to New
Zealand, immediately before Australia, the Pope will also
encounter Church crises. Some 14 percent of the population are
nominally Catholic but more than half of them do not practice
their religion•••• According to recent surveys, 70 percent of
New Zealand Catholics do not follow Vatican teachings on birth
control.