1.   After the speeches, which passing jets and revving police vehicles rendered largely inaudible, the pope went to the Presidential Guest House in Pretoria for a reception.

2.   But other Israelis observed that the pope had already gone further than his predecessors in working for greater understanding between Jews and Christians.

3.   But Moreno is skeptical of change in communist Cuba once the pope goes home.

4.   But some wished the pope had gone further.

5.   But the pope did not go as far as some Jews had hoped.

6.   But the pope went, said his prayers, greeted those who would meet with him and spoke of mending fences.

7.   For where the pope goes, so would the press.

8.   If the pope does go to Athens, his reception by Orthodox leaders is likely to echo that of Georgian church leaders in Tbilisi last year.

9.   Is the pope going to show up on the balcony some Sunday with a fake arrow sticking through his head?

10.   Navarro-Valls also said he could not confirm whether the pope would go through with his freshly hatched plan to visit Armenia after Poland.