The World - News from Sept. 5, 1988

Pope John Paul II said nuns can serve as an example for modern women who believe that “sexual freedom, elimination of moral laws and emancipation from religion” are necessary for progress and self-realization. The Roman Catholic pontiff addressed about 2,000 nuns in the Basilica of Mary Auxiliary on the last day of his three-day visit to the Italian industrial city of Turin. “You have much to say in particular to the women of today in answer to the entreaties emerging from the present socio-cultural context,” John Paul said. “You have inherited a rich tradition,” he said. “Often in the past there came from consecrated women, like a prophecy, the proposal of a new female identity.”