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...these two men -- both great Popes but very different Popes. John XXIII, TIME's 1962 Man of the Year, was nearly 77 when he came to the throne of St. Peter, and his reign lasted less than five years, from 1958 to 1963. John Paul II was by papal standards a comparatively young man when he was elected in 1978 -- only 58, making him the youngest Pope in 132 years. He has already reigned a decade and a half and, despite his recent physical troubles, is making plans into the 21st century...
...kitchen of a teeming, pulsating Italian household, chatting to the women as they went about their work, telling stories to the children, cracking jokes with the men. Instead, his superiors made him spend most of his life as a diplomat, culminating in the grandiose post of papal nuncio in Paris...
...Muslims attempted an assassination and blamed us?' " John Paul sent a personal envoy to Karadzic to get him to repeat the same thing to his face. He did. That indirect but personal threat -- together with the dangers facing the citizens of Sarajevo who would gather for a papal Mass -- scuttled the trip. "We thought of publishing the real reason why the trip could not take place," said Navarro. "But in the end we just said, 'We cannot...
...unusually personal criticism, Pope John Paul II's spokesman assailed Vice President Al Gore, head of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Conference on % Population and Development opening this week in Cairo. Papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said the conference's draft document, principally sponsored by the U.S., "in reality contradicts Mr. Gore," who pledged that the U.S. will never try to establish a universal right to abortion...
...Paul II canceled his planned trip to Sarajevo amid some of the heaviest shooting around the Bosnian capital in months. The pope had hoped to say a public Mass there Thursday, but the Vatican said there were no "sufficient guarantees for the safety of the population" and that a papal visit now could only "add to the tensions." (The pope's planned appearance had been in doubt since he announced the idea last month, as Bosnian Serbs repeatedly warned him to stay away for his own safety.) The pontiff, who vowed to make the journey at some point, is still...