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...erected anywhere. It is is the largest church in a country already rich in religious edifices, and the fifth largest in the world.* Its vaulting (175 ft. high under the tower) is higher than any other, its length (619 ft.) second only to St. Peter's in Rome. Work on the cathedral continued through two world wars and a depression. During the blitz of 1940, King George VI came to Liverpool and told church officials: "Keep on with the work, if only in a small way. Refuse to be beaten." Work continued even after bombs damaged the walls...
...other four; St. Peter's Basalica in Rome, Seville Cathedral in Spain, Milan Cathedral still unfinished, Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Devine in New York City...
...midweek John Paul spent the afternoon visiting his papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo, 15 miles south of Rome. The village crowds, accustomed to a more distant papal style, roared with approval as he stood up to wave from the back of his open black Mercedes. On the balcony of the bedroom in which Pope Paul VI died last August, John Paul told the crowd with a smile: "Our first meeting has been very warm, very noisy, and I hope very religious...
...John Paul showed that he could be firm, he also demonstrated he could be highly unpredictable. An example came last week with his trip to a Rome hospital to see ailing Bishop André-Marie Deskur, the same friend he had visited the day after his election. According to church sources, when the Pope slipped quietly out of the Vatican for his return visit, he wore a priest's black cassock and was whisked off in a car with Rome license plates?instead of using his telltale Mercedes with its Vatican plates. It was an almost unheard-of thing...
Filipczak, whose husband is the pontiff's nephew, was in Rome for the installation Mass two weeks ago. She attended a private audience in the Vatican the following Tuesday...