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The People's Pope; John Paul II, Happy to Serve God and Layman
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"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations."
-- Matthew 28:19
No pope ever took the show on the road like John Paul II.
Within hours of his election, this cheerful, energetic yet deeply
mystical and pious man was holding an international news conference
in several languages, sending Vatican bureaucrats scurrying in a
panic to find out what he was saying.
In short order, he began fulfilling Christ's "great commission" to
spread the Gospel worldwide by launching an unprecedented series of
evangelical pilgrimages that by the quarter-century mark of his
pontificate had taken him to 102 countries. ...
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