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They were coming to see not just the head of the world's 710 million Roman Catholics but a man who during his first year as Pontiff has demonstrated that he is unlike any of his modern predecessors. Already this year John Paul has toured Mexico and his native Poland, hugging and blessing peasants, kissing babies and stirring vast outpourings of human emotion with folksy homilies. In his unique fashion, he is rapidly becoming parish priest to the world, and this mission could only be furthered by his U.S. visit. Said the Rev. James Finlay, president of Fordham University...
...hand" press conference had had an electric effect. Coming on top of a year of successful negotiations, it was for me a moment of unusual pride not leavened by humility. Fallaci caught that mood, even if she took liberties with my pronouncements. She wrote history in the Roman style; she sought psychological, not factual, truth...
...Pope's emphasis on how Christ answers many of the questions of youth may lead Americans to think about the Roman Catholic Church--in which the average attendance at Masses has dropped about 25 per cent over the past decade, Rimkus added...
...effect of the Pope's visit on Boston is equally difficult to predict. "For Roman Catholics, the effect happened before he came--in the enthusiasm and encouragement displayed in the numbers of people who showed up and stayed for the Mass. The Pope's visit will bring a spark of life to them," Rimkus said...
...Pope's theme of youth is an arresting direct appeal from the head of the Roman Catholic Church to youth who have sought material or physical solutions to their problems, Rimkus said. The Pope chose this method purposely to encourage many young people to try to find their answers through the Church...