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Article: The pope at the UN. (Pope John Paul II's October 1995 United Nations visit)(Editorial)
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- October 20, 1995
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As reported ahead of time in these pages ["Caped Crusader Conquers Gotham," October 6], John Paul II swept New Yorkers and just about everyone else within reach of a TV off their feet during his whirlwind and rainsoaked visit. Youthful seminarians were heard to gush about John Paul's resemblance to Jesus, admiring rabbis crowned him a mensch, and even hard-bitten journalists anointed him the "most charismatic man in the world." Just one of the intriguing paradoxes surrounding the pope is his mastery of the media event, a celebrity-driven spectacle that he himself might dismiss as a symptom of the "culture of death" in other contexts.
But as the pope advises, we must ...