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...of forgiveness is an appealing exit from the turmoil of personal transgression. No wonder the masses flock to St. Peter's Square. (I'm feeling a little tug myself.)Bottom line: Most Americans would rather embrace a man who has fallen and...
...on Tuesday after he served almost 20 years in prison for the 1981 attempted assassination of John Paul II in St. Peter's Square. Agca arrived at Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport, escorted by a team of Turkish security agents. He...
...door in the atrium of St. Peter's. When he closed the left side of the door, applause thundered outside in St. Peter's Square, where many of the faithful, estimated by Vatican officials at about 100,000, were watching the ceremony on TV...
VATICAN CITY -- In a sunlit ceremony of ancient ritual in St. Peter's Square, Pope John Paul II on Wednesday installed a record number of cardinals -- 44 new princes of the Roman Catholic Church. With...
...to light. "I've got to pray about that and listen to the lay people," he told reporters at the edge of St. Peter's Square after lunch with the other U.S. cardinals and John Paul on the final day of a two-day summit of U.S. church...
...suspicions that Bulgarian secret agents were behind Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca's shooting of the pope in St. Peter's Square in Rome on May 13, 1981. An Italian court acquitted three Bulgarians of complicity in the attempted assassination...
...people. Eichten said across the world many of those poor are women. Eichten was in Rome last May. She was in St. Peter's Square and saw the Holy Father in his popemobile. She was joined by people in their wedding clothes seeking blessings and...
...several years ago. Kunst and his friends then viewed Pope John Paul II's appearance from among the crowd in St. Peter's Square the next day. It was the Holy Father's regular Sunday praying of the Angelus, a five-minute homily from the...
...always, sang hymns and preached patience. A frail Pope John Paul II, hunched and deliberate in a jam-packed St. Peter's Square, proclaimed a ''Great Jubilee'' before sparklers and a sign that referred to his birth name: ''Karol, happy...