PAPAL TOUR
Anxiety in Vatican (NZP.A-Reuter—Copyright) VATICAN CITY, Nov. 22. • Pope Paul will leave Rome on Thursday for the longest journey of his seven-year reign, and many Vatican officials are privately critical of the exhausting programme facing the Pontiff, who is 73. His 10-day journey to the Far East and Australia will involve more than 25,000 miles of flying and will culminate with ceremonies in Indonesia, Hong Kong and Ceylon within the space of a single day. “If somebody wanted to kill him, they could hardly have thought of a better way,” one Vatican official is quoted as saying. Though his destinations are the Philippines and Australia, the Pope will visit eight territories altogether and, with this journey, he will become the first Pontiff
to have had direct local contact with the Roman Catholic Church in every comer of the world. .Since 1964, he has visited Jordan and Israel, India, the United States, Portugal, Turkey, Colombia, Switzerland and Uganda.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32461, 23 November 1970, Page 16
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