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After eight international tours that have covered IS nations, tumultuous motorcades and clamoring multitudes have become familiar when Pope John Paul II is on the road. But the papal procession across the Philippines last week-his ninth foreign journey and his first to Asia-also displayed ample elements of stagecraft along with spontaneous outpourings of devotion...
...second papal visit in only a decade to Asia's one predominantly Christian nation. Pope Paul VI had gone in 1970, and narrowly escaped serious injury when a crazed man attacked him with a knife. John Paul, history's most traveled Pope, laid on a punishing 20,000-mile, twelve-day itinerary that included an initial stopover in Muslim Pakistan on the way to Manila, and was to be followed this week with a stop on Guam, four days in Japan, a touchdown in Anchorage, Alaska, and a first-ever papal flight over the North Pole en route...
...sugar-coated curtain seemed to be descending over the forthcoming visit of Pope John Paul II to the Philippines. Originally, the Pontiff planned to tour some of the more impoverished sections of the country. Yet President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda are desperately trying to keep the papal visit as sanitary as possible; some Philippine bishops had anticipated just such an attempt last year and wrote to the Pope urging him to cancel his trip to their country...
...historic meeting of the two men, each in his own way a symbol of freedom to the Polish people, was marked by its simplicity. Approaching the Pope at the threshold of the papal library, Walesa dropped to his knees, kissed the papal ring and bowed his head. A devout Catholic who tries to attend Mass daily, Walesa at first resisted when the Pope tried to lift him from his knees. John Paul then ushered the union leader into the library for a half-hour private chat. One presumed topic of their conversation: how to keep the itchier members of Walesa...
There is a peculiar contemporaneity in this careful reconstruction of the Vatican's historic opening to the Soviet bloc under Popes John XXIII and Paul VI. As a Rome correspondent for TIME, Roland Flamini covered the papal elections of 1978. When he began this book the year before that, Flamini could not have foreseen a Polish Pope and Soviet divisions poised on Poland's borders...