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...Mass at Glasgow's Bellahouston Park on Tuesday was the emotional high point of the papal visit. On 175 well-groomed acres, more than 300,000 people gathered, a staggering number considering that the entire Scottish Catholic population totals 800,000. Families and groups of youths came with picnic baskets. To soccer-style chants and crescendos of applause, the Popemobile-a custom-made, bulletproof vehicle-rolled up and down aisles carrying the Pope high over the crowds. At Communion time the multitude adopted a respectful silence. By the time dusk had fallen, John Paul was being serenaded...
...concerned at all for the unity of the church in Scotland, where we have a very bad record," he said, "it is a very significant event." The Pope's visit, Mclntyre added, would give Scots an entirely new opinion of "the character and nature of the papal office." John Paul nodded...
Archbishop Runcie, paying broad tribute to his departed papal guest as "a great Christian teacher," believes that as a result of John Paul's visit Britain's denominational divisions must be seen in a new light: "in the context of a common determination to make Christ's voice heard above the noise generated by a selfish and self-indulgent [British and Western] culture." He believes that the friendship and Christian joy exemplified by John Paul's visit could strengthen the prospects of religious conversion in a nation like Britain, where an anemic 11% of the populace...
...more remote than the Falklands. According to church sources, a settlement proposed by a Vatican mediator has been accepted by the government of Chile, but not by that of Argentina. The Galtieri government's refusal had prompted John Paul to spurn the pleas of Argentine bishops for a papal visit, until the fast-moving developments of the past few weeks changed his mind...
Nothing seems likely to keep this Pontiff within Vatican gates. A possible third papal trip this year is under discussion: to Poland. John Paul ardently wants to attend the 600th anniversary of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, even if martial law is still in force when he arrives, just as he wanted to go to Britain despite the supposedly insurmountable diplomatic problems. Last week Archbishop Herbert Bednorz of Katowice stirred speculation by telling 200,000 pilgrims at a shrine in Poland that the Pope wants the internment centers closed, but if they are not closed when he visits, he will...