Word: pontiffs
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...rites of the Mass were performed by prominent Cardinals. Among the annual gestures most dear to the Pope has been the Holy Thursday washing of the feet of 12 priests, symbolizing Jesus' act of humility before the Apostles on the eve of his crucifixion. But the frail Pontiff had to let Vatican Secretary of State Angelo Cardinal Sodano and France's Roger Cardinal Etchegaray do the ceremonial washing...
...girlfriend named head of the National Osteoporosis Society. This makes the score in the popularity contest: Diana 5,000?Camilla 1 CARLOS MENEM Ex-Argentine president and Latin lover cleared of conspiracy charges, allowing him to focus exclusively on Julio Iglesias look-alike contests POPE JOHN PAUL II Techno-pontiff posts first ever online papal apology, for the clergy's sexual abuse of kids?then plays Everquest until he's slain by an elf Losers MICK JAGGER Solo Stone album sells only 954 copies on first day in U.K. That's pretty good considering most guys his age are wearing...
...bloody schemes in 1995: the assassination of Pope John Paul II in Manila and a plan to plant bombs on U.S. airliners flying out of the Philippines. Plagued throughout his terrorist career by clumsiness, Yousef managed to set fire to his apartment just a week before the Pontiff's arrival, and police found timing devices, 12 fake passports and a business card belonging to bin Laden's brother-in-law, Khalifa. There is no evidence, local police sources say, linking Abu Sayyaf to these failed terrorist attacks. Nevertheless, Abu Sayyaf claimed credit for the June 1995 bombing of a Tokyo...
...GREECE The Pilgrim Pope Seeks Forgiveness Before he arrived in Greece Pope John Paul II was reviled by Greek Orthodox hard-liners as "the grotesque, two-horned monster of Rome." But protesters were disarmed by the frail Pontiff's entreaty for God's pardon of 1,000 years of Roman Catholic sins against the Orthodox Church. The Pope's six-day pilgrimage continued in Syria and Malta...
...Israeli officials urged the pontiff to distance himself from Assad's comments, but John Paul II not surprisingly steered clear of the controversy during his visit to the border zone Monday. After all, his mission in Syria is promoting rapprochement between Islam and the Catholic Church, just as he'd tried to promote reconciliation between Catholics and Jews during last year's visit to Israel. But in Syria he may have bumped into the reality that it's difficult to make friends with both groups while avoiding being drawn into the enmity that rages between them. Indeed...