Seventy-three-year-old superstars are rare. Seventy-three-year-old superstars who can draw tens of thousands of youngsters from 70 countries to a jamboree in Denver are rarer still. But not even a Rocky Mountain rainstorm could drown out the welcome for Pope John Paul II as he landed at Stapleton International Airport last week. "John Paul Two, we love you!" shouted the crowd. "America, you are beautiful," responded the Pontiff.
John Paul had arrived on the scene of what some were calling a "Catholic Woodstock," a four-day youth festival that had drawn more than 180,000 people from all over the world. At the gathering's...