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...motorcade through the city of Salvador on Brazil's coast, crowds threw flowers, danced sambas and fired off skyrockets. Some Brazilians spent hours in drenching rain or under a blazing sun just for a glimpse of Pope John Paul II. As in Zaïre last May, the papal pandemonium also produced tragedy; three people were trampled to death and 30 injured during a stampede into a stadium in Fortaleza...
Those were only two emotional events in a twelve-day, 9,000-mile journey with an exhausting itinerary that took the Pope all over Brazil, the world's largest Roman Catholic nation. The papal plane touched down at Brasilia, the futuristic capital of Brazil, where the Pope marked out one of his major themes by offering President Joao Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo a sermon on social justice. The tour's pitch rose in Belo Horizonte, the nation's third largest city. Youths cheered wildly and chanted, "The Pope is our king!" John Paul spoke movingly to them...
...papal strictures are clear enough...
...change in Harvard's relationship with the city will be seen this summer as the University prepares its report to the community. Early in the 1970s, when Harvard issued the first such report, everyone listened. The papal encircular would show whose homes were safely outside the self-imposed "red-line" expansion boundary and whose properties Harvard was looking at with interest, not to mention capital...
Until the 10th century, saints were created by popular acclaim or by bishops in response to local adulation. The first papal canonization was performed in A.D. 993. Even today the road to beatification and eventual sainthood is likely to have begun with some act of piety or miracle believed in by local people. Since the late 16th century, canonization has evolved into an arduous process that in some ways resembles a legal proceeding more than a spiritual exercise...