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Nothing seems likely to keep this Pontiff within Vatican gates. A possible third papal trip this year is under discussion: to Poland. John Paul ardently wants to attend the 600th anniversary of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, even if martial law is still in force when he arrives, just as he wanted to go to Britain despite the supposedly insurmountable diplomatic problems. Last week Archbishop Herbert Bednorz of Katowice stirred speculation by telling 200,000 pilgrims at a shrine in Poland that the Pope wants the internment centers closed, but if they are not closed when he visits, he will simply include them in his itinerary. The Polish government is known to be cool to the trip, and could prevent it from happening.
But governments, fatigue, war, strikes, political turmoil, assassination attempts—nothing seems to faze John Paul. In short, this peripatetic Pope seems unwilling to rest on his laurels, considerable though they may be after his triumph in Britain.
#151;By Richard N. Ostling.
Reported Mary Cronin and Wilton Wynn with the Pope