11.   The aging pope made his comments about stem cell research while Bush sat beside him at the picturesque papal retreat on Lake Albano outside Rome.

12.   The pope has made a point in his public addresses since his Friday arrival to focus on social justice and democratic reforms.

13.   The pope is making his first foreign trip since child abuse scandals rocked the Roman Catholic Church.

14.   The pope made a sign of the cross over it.

15.   The pope made no mention of Che Guevara, the martyr of the Cuban Revolution who is the object of an almost religious veneration here.

16.   The pope has made it clear in speeches and writings that the Roman Catholic Church is not a democracy.

17.   The pope made special mention of the sick in his homily and his schedule included a visit to a hospital for terminal cancer and AIDS patients.

18.   The political parties in Poland, which is overwhelmingly Roman Catholic, had expected the pope to make his views known.

19.   The pope has made impassioned pleas here for a broader effort to gather souls.

20.   The pope made no direct reference to the incident when he spoke at an open-air Mass in this port city under the shadow of Mount Etna.