Ticker Tape Parade for Pope John Paul II
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Pope John Paul II
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An ebullient pontiff, thrown a ticker-tape parade by overjoyed New Yorkers, was shielded from the rain by an umbrella held by Terence Cardinal Cooke, the Archbishop of New York. At a gathering at Madison Square Garden, Pope John Paul II was cheered by thousands of teenagers. “If he’d put that guitar around his neck,” said one headmaster of a Catholic high school, “the kids would have blown the roof right off the Garden.”
While most New Yorkers embraced the Pope’s visit, others were critical of his decision to use the trip to express disagreement with aspects of American capitalism; still others decried some aspects of Catholic teaching or castigated the City for spending money on the Pope’s visit in the midst of a budget crisis. Over the course of the day, the Pope’s schedule was delayed twice due to an unfounded bomb threat and false report of a gun sighting.
An ebullient pontiff, thrown a ticker-tape parade by overjoyed New Yorkers, was shielded from the rain by an umbrella held by Terence Cardinal Cooke, the Archbishop of New York. At a gathering at Madison Square Garden, Pope John Paul II was cheered by thousands of teenagers. “If he’d put that guitar around his neck,” said one headmaster of a Catholic high school, “the kids would have blown the roof right off the Garden.”
While most New Yorkers embraced the Pope’s visit, others were critical of his decision to use the trip to express disagreement with aspects of American capitalism; still others decried some aspects of Catholic teaching or castigated the City for spending money on the Pope’s visit in the midst of a budget crisis. Over the course of the day, the Pope’s schedule was delayed twice due to an unfounded bomb threat and false report of a gun sighting.
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