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But who can resist a smirk when a female network broadcaster observes that with respect to celibacy in the priesthood, “the pontiff remains firm.”
Accompanied by a picture of Pope John Paul II at Mohandas Gandhi's gravesite, the LAT fronts the pontiff's "call to conversion" during his visit to India.
Church officials defend the practice, says the Post , as a way of avoiding charging the poor to see the pontiff.
But the pontiff also criticized Cuban atheism and called for the protection of all Cubans' rights.
The Post has a perhaps-too-friendly story about the Pope, who's visiting Mexico: "To understand the significance of this pontiff, it helps to see him through his own eyes, and measure him by the yardstick of church history."