Word: popes
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...murder charges were read aloud, then returned to the defense table as her lawyer said she was not yet ready to enter a plea. (Judge Costa Pleiconas, who set the trial date for April 24, entered an innocent plea on her behalf.) If Smith is found guilty, prosecutor Tommy Pope said, he'll ask to have her executed in the electric chair...
Philippine police today arrested two men in what the government called a Muslim extremist plot against Pope John Paul II, who was visiting Manila as part of a four-nation tour of Asia. Manila press reports said police are searching for about 20 foreigners in the alleged conspiracy, which reportedly targeted U.S. airlines. Two Pakistani men allegedly involved in the plot were arrested last Friday near the residence of the Vatican ambassador. Police sources told Manila reporters that the men had bomb-making materials in their hotel rooms. Police reportedly are now seeking a 26-year-old Kuwaiti-born "electronics...
...Pope John Paul II, visibly tired after a 14-hour flight and using a cane on the tarmac, 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...
...pope's second stop, after a weekend of rest, comes Monday in Papua New Guinea, where a million Cathlics -- a fourth of the population -- wait to greet him with tribal drums, painted warriors and barefoot dancers...
...replies, "Me? Totally excluded. Out of the question." Lustiger fidgets silently with his breviary in its brown leather case, then suddenly announces, "I had a dream. I dreamed that the President of the United States was black, the President of the ex-U.S.S.R. was a Muslim -- and the Pope was Chinese. And in my dream I asked God to let me die before that day would come. Because if ever we had a Chinese Pope" -- he clenches his fist and makes a screw-turning gesture -- "they know what administration...