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...fervor for many Argentines in the hours before the Pope's arrival. The patriotic euphoria of the early weeks of the war was all but submerged in a vast national outpouring of piety and sheer excitement over the Pope's visit, the first ever made by a Pontiff to Argentina...
Throughout the day, Reagan was at his informal best. At the Elysée lunch, he told the old joke about a lawyer and a Pope who arrived simultaneously at the gates of heaven. St. Peter admitted the lawyer immediately, explaining to the waiting Pontiff that the attorney got special consideration because heaven was crowded with Popes, but no lawyer had ever made it before. That drew a laugh from present and former lawyers in his audience-including Mitterrand...
...unleashed, society's war machines today would make even the destruction of World War II pale in comparison. He spoke near the most renowned landmark in Coventry, England: the remnant of the bombed-out Anglican cathedral, left standing as a perpetual reminder of the horrors of war. The Pontiff painted a chilling picture of "people . . . under the shadow of a nuclear nightmare...
...Catholics. Mixed marriages create "special difficulties," he said, but "you live in your marriage the hopes and difficulties of the path to Christian unity." It was an arresting juxtaposition of elements; no one in the papal party, or in the British hierarchy, had ever before heard the Pontiff put the matter quite this...
Nothing seems likely to keep this Pontiff within Vatican gates. A possible third papal trip this year is under discussion: to Poland. John Paul ardently wants to attend the 600th anniversary of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, even if martial law is still in force when he arrives, just as he wanted to go to Britain despite the supposedly insurmountable diplomatic problems. Last week Archbishop Herbert Bednorz of Katowice stirred speculation by telling 200,000 pilgrims at a shrine in Poland that the Pope wants the internment centers closed, but if they are not closed when he visits, he will...