51.   Perhaps the most striking effort toward reconciliation came in remarks the pope was to have addressed to representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Bosnia.

52.   Police were not allowed to take vacation while the pope was here.

53.   Pressed to explain the omissions Sunday, the Vatican spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, first said the pope was under pressure to finish his speeches on schedule.

54.   Quite simply, the pope was up against one of those rare news events that kept people talking all week.

55.   Since Islam is a nonhierarchal religion, there is no pope, for example, to hand down decrees.

56.   Some popes were sons of other popes without it ever detracting from their holy deeds.

57.   Some Vatican observers took that to mean the pope would be open to the involvement of civil authorities.

58.   Still, the pope is in a place where miracles happen.

59.   The ailing pope is now incapable of forcefully taking on such a volatile issue, said several Vatican officials.

60.   The Catholic population here still knows so little about its faith that many Cubans have no idea what a pope is.