On his first journey, the new Pontiff visits Mexico for a critical bishops'conference
The first quake struck shortly before dawn, a strong, 6.3 nimbler that shook Mexico City a bit and unsettled the populace but inflicted no major damage. The really big quake hit nine hours later, when Pope John Paul II arrived at an airport named for a Mexican President famed for promulgating harsh anti-Catholic laws. John Paul had chosen to make this, his first international journey, to open a critical meeting of bishops from the length of Latin America that will provide the...
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