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...conservative Catholic lay groups to connect with young Europeans noted that it is not clear how many people "revered John Paul's austere message as much as the man himself." The quote from Karl Cardinal Lehmann of Germany, who said, "The girls in St. Peter's Square who cheer the Pope have the Pill in their pockets," amazed me. I have been a priest for more than 20 years and have worked with youths in the U.S. as well as in Spain. If there is one single issue that made young people crazy about Pope John Paul II during...
...sports section, of course. But no rooting. Didn't care about anybody. Fandom never made sense to me in the first place. The whole idea is absurd. It's one thing to admire sport and watch it for its beauty and elegance. That makes sense. But to care and cheer and stomp for other grown men to win? That's bizarre. These brutes throw chairs at fans. They take steroids and pretend it mysteriously got into their cereal. They curse and spit and scratch their groins and then whack the cameraman who chronicles their every move for the worshipful masses...
...across a giant field where they've camped out through the damp and chilly night. The image of Benedict XVI in his popemobile appears on the giant video screens. He is somewhere here, in this gathering of Woodstock scope called World Youth Day, 15 miles outside of Cologne. Some cheer the sight on the screen, others clasp their hands in prayer. There are also plenty who seem to simply gravitate toward the physical presence of their Holy Father-some running in the direction of the faraway stage, others walking in a head-up, open-mouth trance. Whether he likes...
...from her buff 5-ft. 2-in. frame and sculpted biceps. "I started tumbling when I was, like, 4 or 5," she says. "You have to train and be committed to the team." Besides school practices, she takes lessons with a private coach, who also happens to be her cheer sponsor, Washington--a point not missed by some of the other girls' moms who have complained about favoritism...
...cheer camp, jealousy and the stress of competition start to hurt the Henderson team's scores from the National Cheerleaders Association instructors. So late one night, the 14 girls hold a "Come to Jesus" meeting in their S.M.U. dorm room to air grievances and try to put their problems behind them. Krystin, caught in the cross fire of parental sniping, is sage enough at 13 to know that teamwork matters above all--more than the moves and certainly more than the makeup. "It's not just about one person," she says on the last day of camp. "You want...