Word: orbis
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Nausea and fever from an apparent flu forced Pope John Paul II to miss the Christmas Day Mass at St. Peter's Basilica and cut short the traditional Urbi et Orbi Christmas message. Working on just three hours' sleep after his Christmas Eve midnight Mass, the 75-year-old Pontiff told the crowd in St. Peter's Square, "Even the Pope has his weaknesses. Yet I try to resist...
...amalgam of historic regions -- a microcosm of a world of peoples rather than of nations. A regionalist finds it much easier to develop true internationalism than a nationalist, and this is one reason why both men were at ease as head of a global organization, speaking urbi et orbi -- to the city and to the world...