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A hard act
to follow
By Bill Smiley
Merchants and hucksters
across the land will gladly
sell you a souvenir of then
Pope's visit for eighty per
cent off these days. They
overbought, misled by the
media, whose 'figures were
on the high side, and scared
away a lot of people who
don't like mobs.
On the other hand, no
visitor to this country could
command the huge crowds,
Catholic and otherwise, who
trudged through mud and
were belted by cold rain and
suffered cruel winds, to see
the Holy Father.
No other figure in the
world could come to this
country and say the things he
did and get away with it,
indeed, be cheered for it.
Some of the things that
came through from a week of
Pope -watching were evident
to all: the man's tremendous
endurance; his sometimes
fierce insistence on
spiritualism over material-
ism; his love of children and
succour for the sick and
crippled; his insistence on a
better deal for the poor of the
world.
Even the most staunch
my foot and make it better,
though- I'd have kissed his
hand if he had.
1 have an apology to make
to His Holiness. I accused
him of not saying a prayer
for Team Canada against the
heathen Russians. That
column was written just
before the Canada -Russia
game. Apparently he got the
•message, and sneaked off for
a minute to have a word with
the Lord. Anyway, we won
that night, 3-2. Thanks, Pope.
Despite the fact that he
was only three miles away, I
didn't go to see or hear him.
It involved swimming a lake
and wading through a
marsh. I don't think he
missed me.
Instead, I went to visit
Mammon, my bank. At 5:30
on a Friday, I was the only
customer in the bank. I pro-
ceeded to a vendor of po-
tatoes, which had hired extra
staff for the day. I was one of
two customers there. A
striking blow for His Holi-
ness, methinks.
Frankly, I don't care if I
never see another facsimile
of John Paul. I have been
confronted by them in -every
store window, newspaper,
Irish Orangeman could fast food shop and gift shop
scarce forbear to cheer. for three or four months.
It's going to be a hard act He's a handsome chap, but
for the Queen to follow. She - enough is enough.
won't dare talk about native What I do wish is that I had
rights and poverty and the a video of him kissing chil-
questionable politics of some dren, blessing the afflicted,
provinces. and doggedly serving mass
Let's face it. The Pope has in a wind -whipped arena
more clout than a distant without saying "get me the
descendant of Good King hell out of here." •
Harry, who broke with Something I don't under -
Rome, seized the Church's stand is that the hucksters
wealth, found himself a tame didn't sell Pope headgear.
Archbishop, and married at There was his tall hat, which
will. he didn't wear too often, but
`Twas not always so. The would be priceless for
stay-at-home Popes, huddled Hallowe'en parties. Then
in the Vatican, became there was his beanie, or
almost symbols, with the odd skullcap, which he wore
exception, timid, and non- often, and must have used
sensical, thereby creating a Krazy-Glue to keep on, in
virtual revolution within the some of those winds.
church. A guid, canny Scotsman
John ?aul If has not.exiact could have male a fortune
- y,...wonxoveu. the .feaninisk 4i2out those two bead -pieces NA
movement, nor the priests But I hear stories, instead,
who want to get married of people at the Pope's site
• (silly idiots), but at least he trying to sell hot-dogs for
goes out and lays it on the $1.75 and hamburgers for
line, not hiding behind the $1.95 and having to give them
skirts of Rome. He has been away at the end of the day,
shot, threatened, and prob- because we're not a' that
ably cost more .in security stupid. Pity.
services than anyone in the 4 Anyway, we won the Cana -
world. 'da Cup, thanks to the Pope's
I don't know whether he little duck off for a prayer,
has created a great resur- and God's apparently in His
•gence.in the R. C.'s. I'll count. Heaven, and all's right with
the cars parked outside my the world.
house this Sunday, and for And I' had an • advocate,
• several afterwards. It's only saying a prayer for me, right
two blocks from the church. up there with the Pope. I
Personally, I didn't get to haven't checked, it out yet,
meet him, though my ar- but if she didn't say that
thritic foot should have got prayer, • we're both in
me in,the front row. I didn't trouble. She with me, I with.
exactly expect him to kiss the Lord.
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