1.   At the United Nations, the pope had planned to address the General Assembly on an issue close to him, the family.

2.   A few miles east of Nazareth, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, the pope plans to celebrate an outdoor Mass at a Catholic youth gathering.

3.   Dr. Navarro Valls said the pope planned to donate his royalties to a charity but did not say which organization would benefit.

4.   Hoping for an unprecedented expansion of the gospel, the pope plans to usher in the millennium praying with world religious leaders on Mount Sinai.

5.   The pope plans to rectify that during a mass on Wednesday by beatifying three Malta natives, the last step before sainthood.

6.   The pope has been planning how to usher in the third millennium ever since he was elected.

7.   The pope plans to go to the Jordanian site immediately before his arrival in Israel.

8.   Tuesday the pope plans to celebrate Mass in an Amman stadium for the small minority of Roman Catholics in this overwhelmingly Muslim kingdom.

9.   After Christmas, the pope plans to have his usual few days of rest at the papal residence in a town outside Rome.

10.   After lunch the pope planned to work on speeches he will give during his trip this weekend to the Czech Republic and Poland.