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...students lustily chanted "J.P. Two, We Love You-You Are Super." The highest pitch came in Cebu, the cradle of Philippine Catholicism, where the city's population doubled for the day. Thousands had waited in the open air since the previous night to catch a glimpse of the Pontiff...
Throughout, the Filipinos saw and heard a many-sided Pontiff. John Paul was, as always, the charismatic Pope who set multitudes cheering. He was the political Pope, at once scolding his presidential host with a sermon on human rights and admonishing priests and nuns against revolutionary activism. He was the diplomat-Pope, extending an olive branch to the People's Republic of China and appealing for Muslim-Christian harmony on blood-soaked Mindanao. He was the doctrinaire Pope, zealously condemning artificial birth control in a nation with one of the most rapidly growing populations on earth...
...some of the sternest language that diplomacy admits. He said that he was pleased at "recent initiatives"-meaning the lifting of martial law-but proceeded to challenge the rationale upon which Marcos had built his strongman rule. "A legitimate preoccupation with the security of the state," warned the Pontiff, "could lead to the temptation to subjugate the people, their dignity and their rights to the state." Discarding a prepared reply, Marcos seemed chastened in his first response: "Forgive us, Holy Father. Now that you are here, we resolve that we shall wipe out all conflicts and set up a society...
...said Bishop Antonio Fortich in the Philippine province of Negros Occidental last week. "Where a crisis exists, that's where the Holy Father should go." Nonetheless, a sugar-coated curtain seemed to be descending over the forthcoming visit of Pope John Paul II to the Philippines. Originally, the Pontiff planned to tour some of the more impoverished sections of the country. Yet President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda are desperately trying to keep the papal visit as sanitary as possible; some Philippine bishops had anticipated just such an attempt last year and wrote to the Pope urging...
...have been with you in a special way, above all through prayer, but also in every way discreetly possible." He called the creation of Solidarity "an event of great importance" and asserted that the right to form free associations is "one of the fundamental human rights." However, the Pontiff also counseled moderation, and praised the workers for their maturity "against the background of terror . . . which does not spare the lives of innocent men." The meeting concluded with an exchange of gifts. Walesa gave the Pope a ship model made by the Gdansk shipworkers and a replica of the recently constructed...