Volume 34, Number 16 · October 22, 1987
Cheer Up, John Paul II
By Murray Kempton
John Paul II is unlikely to come among us again, and it would be a pity if he had left behind no image so vivid as of his homesickness and his beleaguerment. All the same, the inference recurred during his visit that we might be watching the burning out of a pope, a phenomenon not as infrequent as we would be happy to think.
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