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Given the atmosphere of mistrust, church leaders were worried that the state might prove overzealous in protecting the Pope. Clerics in the industrial city of Katowice reportedly scotched a proposal by local security officers to build watchtowers around the site of an open-air Mass, fearing that it would make the faithful feel as if they were in a concentration camp. Residents of Cracow also wondered why a park that had been used for a papal Mass in 1979 had been subdivided with wooden railings that gave it the appearance of a cattle pen. The likely explanation...
...Solidarity leaders were nowhere to be seen, then supporters were legion. More than one million people, the largest crowd that had assembled anywhere in Poland since the Pope's 1979 visit, jammed Warsaw's Tenth Anniversary soccer stadium for an open-air Mass on the second day of the Pope's visit. Some of them had arrived more than 24 hours early in order to greet the Pontiff. The crowd included delegations from Gdansk, Poznan, Radom, Lublin and other Polish cities. There were uniformed boy scouts, nurses in white tunics, peasant women in brightly colored scarves...
Several other places deserve mention as well. The Orpheum, a first-rate hall for about 3000, is bringing the Tubes and Joan Armatrading to town. And there's series of open-air concerts on the Boston Common, including Chicago, Linda Ronstadt, and a not to be missed evening with Mr. "Sexual Healing" himself, Marvin Gaye. And down near the beach at the Cape Cod Glesium huge sweat that it is, Elvis Costello is scheduled for August. Tickets have been on sale for a few months, so you may well be out of luck But if you cross your fingers...
...church has tried to stay out of the fray. Celebrating an open-air Mass for 20,000 people who had gathered to mark the arrival in Warsaw of the Black Madonna, Poland's most revered religious painting, Roman Catholic Primate Josef Cardinal Glemp told the hushed crowd, "This will be a decisive year for Poland, a year that will define the direction of her development." Glemp carefully avoided any reference to the May 1 protest. But later in the day, before another Mass in the port city of Gdansk, the Polish Cardinal spent about half an hour talking with...
John Paul will follow a similar schedule at each stop. He will be greeted at the airport by government officials and later will meet privately with the head of state. The high point of each visit will be an open-air Mass on a site large enough to hold crowds in the hundreds of thousands. The Pope has also scheduled meetings with the bishops of every national church and plans to address smaller groups representing a cross section of the faithful, from nuns to campesinos...