Word: popes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...POPE MISSES CHRISTMAS MASS...
Nausea and fever from an apparent flu forced Pope John Paul II to miss the Christmas Day Mass at St. Peter's Basilica and cut short the traditional Urbi et Orbi Christmas message. Working on just three hours' sleep after his Christmas Eve midnight Mass, the 75-year-old Pontiff told the crowd in St. Peter's Square, "Even the Pope has his weaknesses. Yet I try to resist...
...world, they were out in force. And while there were differences among what individual scholars believed, radical minimalist John Van Seters of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, summed up many of their commonly held positions. The oldest books of the Old Testament, he declared with Pope-like confidence, weren't written until the Israelites were in exile in Babylon, after 587 B.C. There was no Moses, no crossing of the sea, no revelation on Mount Sinai...
...pictures of Pope Benedict XVI visiting America...
...LANDERS Called the Pope a Polack in the New Yorker. Sounds like a problem for Dear Abby...