31.   Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said that after the exams, the pope celebrated Mass with his personal secretary, Monsignor Stanislaw Dziwisz.

32.   While the pope was celebrating Mass inside the basilica, the muezzin began calling Muslims to prayer over a loudspeaker at a mosque nearby.

33.   Yet the pope celebrated the Mass, leaving just a few brief parts of the liturgy to two cardinals.

34.   He said the pope would celebrate mass in the open-air skating rink of the Olympic Zetra complex in northern Sarajevo.

35.   A meeting is scheduled with President Arpad Goncz before the pope celebrates vespers in the monastery, where he will also spend the night.

36.   The pope had celebrated midnight mass in apparent good health on Sunday night.

37.   The pope was celebrating mass -- his principal theme expected to be evangelisation and the family -- from a specially built altar topped with a thatched roof.

38.   This year on the advice of his doctors, the pope will not celebrate Christmas mass on Wednesday morning in the basilica.

39.   Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro Valls said the pope will celebrate a mass and meet with Lebanese youth during the visit, which will be limited to the Beirut area.

40.   Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said the pope will celebrate a mass and meet with Lebanese youth during the visit.