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| | Boston.com / News / Special reports / Pope John Paul II, 1920-2005 / Boston Globe special section / Global pilgrim |
 | | Paul VI, who reigned from 1963 to 1978, pioneered the role of pontiff as global emissary for the church, visiting the Holy Land, India, the United States, Africa, and Southeast Asia. |
 | | John Paul II uttered this astonishing statement in the mid-1980s, according to Rome-based Associated Press correspondent Victor Simpson, who covered all of his papacy. |
 | | (Paul VI, by contrast, was a distant second with nine.) And for most of his papacy, John Paul walked to the back of the Alitalia 747 and talked to reporters, something previously unheard of. |
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