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Apr 3, 2005 12:14am
pope john paul
Just after the election of the pope in 1978, Father Boniecki recalled, John Paul went on a pilgrimage to the birthplace of St. Francis of Assissi.
"There was a group of people there," he remembered. "The pope didn't know where they were from, maybe Czechoslovakia. They held up a sign that said, 'Greetings from the silent church.' They meant the church from behind the Iron Curtain, the church that couldn't say anything.
"The pope saw the sign and said, 'There is no longer a silent church. I am its voice.' "
(NYT)
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