The Year in Pictures 2000

March
Many of young Karol Wojtyla's classmates in Wadowice, Poland, a town not an hour's drive from Auschwitz, were Jewish , and he was painfully aware of the concentration camps. When he became Pope John Paul II in 1978, he was determined to seek conciliation between Catholics and Jews. In late March of the Jubilee Year of his Church, the most traveled pope in history made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, where he prayed at the Wailing Wall.

• Person of the Year 2000: George W. Bush