*SIGH*

Well, the pope died...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4909738,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4909833,00.html

You can just click on the links on the left of those pages to read different stories on Pope John Paul II.

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=45237

"Pope John Paul's pontificate changed not only the Church but the world."

" Pope John Paul's love for the Church did not diminish his respect for other religious traditions."

" Pope John Paul took as an informal motto of his papacy the words of scripture, "Be not afraid!" Through these twenty-six years, he taught us in word and deed the meaning of this phrase - that all who wholeheartedly open their lives to Christ and belong to Him have nothing to fear in this world or the next.
May we who mourn the passing of our Holy Father follow the example of his faith and be led, as he was, to a deeper hope of eternal life with the Risen Christ."