Word: pontiff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They were coming to see not just the head of the world's 710 million Roman Catholics but a man who during his first year as Pontiff has demonstrated that he is unlike any of his modern predecessors. Already this year John Paul has toured Mexico and his native Poland, hugging and blessing peasants, kissing babies and stirring vast outpourings of human emotion with folksy homilies. In his unique fashion, he is rapidly becoming parish priest to the world, and this mission could only be furthered by his U.S. visit. Said the Rev. James Finlay, president of Fordham University...
SEASON: 7-5, .583 (Heading back over .600 thanks to the inspiration of the Supreme Pontiff...
...Pope found equally receptive audiences in New York, Philadelphia, Des Moines and Chicago this week. In New York, an enthusiastic group of high school students presented the delighted pontiff with a sweatshirt and blue jeans and played basketball marches...
...Boston, 1000 protesters outside Holy Cross Cathedral chanted "stop racism now" and held up placards to attract the Pope's attention. The racially-mixed demonstrators were protesting the shooting of a high school football player last week in Charlestown. The Secret Service rerouted the Pontiff to avoid the protesters...
...looking journalists hanging out in the Volpe International Building at Logan Airport, waiting for the Pope. Journalists from all over the world, all over the country. Rectangular tags with green and yellow markings; rectangular tags with purple and brown markings; diamond-shape tags with yellow and white markings--the Pontiff's colors. Cameras and tape-recorders and typewriters--more than 100 of them lined up like altar boys on about 20 tables in the makeshift filing center--and telex machines. Long-distance and local phones, lots of them, with quadralingual dialing instructions posted strategically. People are chatting in English, Italian...