| July 12, 2006 | - The Vatican announced that, while it paid $9 million for the funeral of Pope John Paul II, it still made a $12.4 million profit in 2005.
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BBC News
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| April 3, 2006 | -
Catholics commemorated the one-year anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II.
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San Jose Mercury News
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| March 3, 2006 | - An Italian commission found that the Soviet Union organized the shooting of Pope John Paul II in 1981.
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| October 31, 2005 | - A Ford Escort once owned by Pope John Paul II sold for $680,000.
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Reuters
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| June 6, 2005 | - Stanislaw Dziwisz, the longtime aide and confidant of Pope John Paul II, revealed that he had refused to obey the dead pope's request that all his papers be burned.
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The Independent
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| May 13, 2005 | -
Pope Benedict XVI called for Pope John Paul II to be beatified; investigators are now looking for a miracle.
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BBC News
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| April 14, 2005 | - A Christian radio talk-show host was fired for questioning whether the dead pope would go to heaven.
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Local6.com
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| April 10, 2005 | - Scottish soccer fans booed during a moment of silence to honor the pope.
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AP
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| April 3, 2005 | - Robert Creeley, Terri Schiavo, Johnnie Cochran, Frank Perdue, Mitch Hedberg, and the pope died, as did the man who wrote the theme song to “Gidget.”
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Indianapolis Star
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Indianapolis Star
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New York Times
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New York Times
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Fredericksburg.com
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| March 28, 2005 | - The pope was speechless.
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Newsday
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| March 20, 2005 | - The pope, too ill to perform Palm Sunday mass, waved an olive branch from his apartment window.
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BBC News
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| March 8, 2005 | - The pope relinquished most of his Easter duties.
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Scotsman.com
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| March 2, 2005 | - The pope could speak again.
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New York Times
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| February 24, 2005 | - The pope underwent a tracheotomy.
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BBC News
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| February 12, 2005 | - The pope endorsed suffering.
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AP
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| December 22, 2004 | - The Pope defrocked Maurice Blackwell, a Baltimore-area priest; in 2002, Blackwell was shot and wounded by an altar boy he allegedly molested.
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Sign On San Diego
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| October 2, 2004 | - The Pope beatified Karl I, the last emperor of Austria, an alcoholic
adulterer who performed a miracle and used poison gas during World War I; the miracle allegedly occured in 1960, when a Polish nun prayed to Karl and was cured of sores and varicose veins.
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Telegraph
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| June 29, 2004 | - The pope expressed outrage over the sacking of Constantinople by Christian crusaders in 1204.
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BBC
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| June 5, 2004 | - President Bush met with the pope.
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Associated Press
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| April 15, 2004 | - Bartholomew, the Eastern Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople, accepted the pope's apology for the sacking of his city by crusaders in the 13th century.
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Associated Press
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| January 28, 2004 | -
Dick Cheney gave the pope a crystal dove.
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New York Times
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| October 22, 2002 | -
Vatican sources said that Pope John Paul II, who says that he has entrusted his future to the Virgin Mary, will add five new mysteries to the rosary.
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| May 28, 2002 | -
Pope John Paul II traveled to Bulgaria as part of his continuing mission to unify the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox churches.
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| March 26, 2002 | -
Pope John Paul II, addressing a string of pedophilia scandals embroiling America's Roman Catholic priesthood, confirmed that the priests involved are sinners, and regretted that such criminal behavior casts a “dark shadow of suspicion” across the entire clergy.
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| September 25, 2001 | - Pope John Paul II went to Kazakhstan, where he celebrated mass in a giant yurt.
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| February 13, 2001 | - The Pope was considering naming Saint Isidore of Seville the patron saint of Internet users and computer programmers.
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| December 26, 2000 | - Many Roman Catholics were hoping that Pope John Paul II would use his absolute power in such matters to declare the Virgin Mary a co-redeemer with Jesus Christ; 6 million Catholics, including 550 bishops and 42 cardinals, have signed petitions beseeching the Pope to do so, which effectively would make the Virgin a god.
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