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...years, journalists who cover Pope John Paul II have referred to him privately as ``the old man.'' Last week, in the midst of his 11-day tour of Asia and the Pacific, the 74-year-old Pontiff accepted that description--if a bit reluctantly. In Manila for World Youth Day, he replied to youngsters who were shouting, ``Lolek! Lolek!,'' his nickname as a boy. ``Lolek was a child,'' he told them. ``John Paul...
...arrived in Manila as a surging sea of a million Filipinos welcomed him to the only predominantly Roman Catholic country on his grueling, four-nation tour of Southeast Asia. The visit entailed some personal risk, as Filipino authorities had warned of a possible terrorist attack on airlines during the pontiff's visit. (Last week, they arrested a man after finding bomb-making materials in a nearby apartment.) Today, police arrested a man found carrying a pistol along the papal route, deployed bomb-sniffing dogs around the Papal Nunciature and even examined boxes of chocolates carried by nuns. The pontiff, undeterred...
Sodano is, in effect, the Pope's Prime Minister and the only curial official with instant access to John Paul. But there are other Cardinals the Pope confers with regularly. Every Friday evening, the Pontiff meets with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 67, the austere German theologian whose title is prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (once known as the Holy Office). "Ratzinger is a theologian and John Paul is a philosopher, but they basically see eye to eye," says a veteran Vaticanologist. The two became friends at the Second Vatican Council, when both were young bishops...
Profile: Philosopher and autocrat, Polish priest and Roman Pontiff, aging...
...have given this honor to Lech Walesa and to Pope John XXIII -- but also to Stalin and Hitler!" Sancton, a bit nonplussed, explained, "Holy Father, you must understand that we have a good list and a bad list. You are on the good list." Gratified but still playful, the Pontiff replied, "I hope I always remain on the good list...