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Pope John Paul II
September 22, 2015
The New Republic Staff
Popes in America: 50 Years of Papal Visits
May 11, 2013
Michael Kimmage
Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher: Kindred Spirits
October 30, 1995
Jennifer Bradley
Indulgences
A dispatch from Pope John Paul II's spectacle-filled visit to Camden Yards in 1995
September 6, 1993
Robin Chotzinoff
John Denver
A papal postcard from Denver, Colorado
October 5, 1987
Andrew Sullivan
Papa Do Preach
Andrew Sullivan goes to see Pope John Paul II in San Antonio, Texas
October 20, 1979
Thomas Geoghegan
Popestock in Chicago
John Paul's winning battle in a losing war

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