61.   The pope made no public commitment.

62.   The pope made no specific reference to any part of the world.

63.   The pope also made a private visit to the tomb of Jerome Lejeune, a French geneticist who founded an anti-abortion group.

64.   The pope made a special appeal for Cubans to join the priesthood.

65.   The pope made no direct comment on the bloody clashes involving Muslim militants and Palestinian police in the Gaza Strip.

66.   The pope made no mention of threats by NATO to stage air strikes if the Serbs continue their aggressio against Albanians.

67.   The pope made what the Vatican considers a big step forward last month when he visited Romania, his first trip to a predominantly Orthodox country.

68.   The pope will be making his seventh visit to France, and as always, it is not without controversy.

69.   Then the pope made his first public reference to the illness that kept him from public view since a parish visit a week earlier.

70.   This week, a crude homemade bomb was discovered in a church where the pope will make one of his first stops.