Word: papally
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Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, who traveled with Pope John Paul II through Poland for this week's cover story, is no stranger to papal tours. He flew twice with Pope Paul VI and had a chat with John Paul II on the new Pontiffs trip to Mexico last January. Wynn reports great differences between the two as air passengers. "Pope Paul established the habit of visiting the press section during each flight," recalls Wynn. "But he was reserved and a bit shy. He would shake each newsman's hand, murmur a greeting, and then return...
Covering the papal newsmaker on the ground proved a bit more challenging; the Pope went by helicopter to all stops, while reporters had to follow by car. Wynn and Eastern Europe Correspondent Barry Kalb devised a system of "leapfrogging" the papal party. One would spend a day covering the Pope, while the other drove to the next destination and saw to all the complicated logistical and bureaucratic arrangements the trip required...
Riding in an open car the Pope rolled through city and town. Spires, lampposts, postmen's bicycles, railroad stations, pretty girls' balconies, all were ablaze with flowers, and the tails of innumerable papal banners, yellow and white, the colors of the Supreme Pontiff from distant Rome, fluttered against a blue...
...flight from Rome to Warsaw, John Paul was able to eat hardly any breakfast and told the 60 reporters and photographers on his plane that he would need to "contain my emotion" during the trip. As soon as the papal jet landed, black-robed Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, 77, the Primate of Poland, mounted the steps into the plane. John Paul's shrewd former mentor has maneuvered for three decades to guide the Polish church through the darkest days of Stalinist repression into an era of uneasy coexistence with the country's Communist rulers. The extent of the church...
...control spontaneous combustion. Both church and state, though, have been working together somewhat touchily to avoid unruly demonstrations. In Warsaw, liquor sales were banned. The Pope will travel into recently created security sectors. Both church and state agreed that spectator tickets to papal events would be issued only to people living in that sector. Meanwhile, the Communist regime may end up paying the bulk of $65,000 to put up the new altar in Victory Square in Warsaw, $116,000 worth of portable toilets in Cracow, and $25,000 to pay for special hats worn by 40,000 volunteer Catholic...