PHOTO: EAST NEWS/WOJTEK LASKI 20020817. KRAKOW. POLSKA 9 pielgrzymka Papieza Jana Pawla II do Polski. Jan Pawel II , Aleksander i Jolanta Kwasniewscy w Palacu Biskupow w Krakowie.

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/WOJTEK LASKI Osma pielgrzymka papieza Jana Pawla II do Polski, Krakow, 17.08.2002. N/z: Jan Pawel II i Leszek Miller w Palacu Biskupow w Krakowie.

In this photo made available by the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano, Pope John Paul II follows the Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square from his studio at the Vatican, Sunday, March 27, 2005. For the first time since John Paul II's papacy began in 1978, Easter Sunday Mass at the Vatican was celebrated without the pope as he continued his convalescence following two recent hospitalizations for breathing crises. For years, John Paul also has suffered from Parkinson's disease. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, ho)

In this photo made available from Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano, Pope John Paul II holds a crucifix as he follows on video-link the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) torchlight procession in front of Rome's Colosseum from his chapel in his private apartments at the Vatican, Good Friday, March 25, 2005. For the first time in his 26-year pontificate, Pope John Paul II did not attend the Way of the Cross procession Friday night. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, ho)

In this photo made available from Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano, Pope John Paul II holds a crucifix as he follows on video-link the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) torchlight procession in front of Rome's Colosseum from his chapel in his private apartments at the Vatican, Good Friday, March 25, 2005. For the first time in his 26-year pontificate, Pope John Paul II did not attend the Way of the Cross procession Friday night. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, ho)

In this frame made from CTV Vatican television, Pope John Paul II holds a crucifix as he follows on video-link the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) torchlight procession in front of Rome's Colosseum from his chapel in his private apartments at the Vatican, Good Friday, March 25, 2005. For the first time in his 26-year pontificate, Pope John Paul II did not attend the Way of the Cross procession Friday night. (AP Photo/CTV Vatican Television, ho)

In this photo made available from Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano, Pope John Paul II follows on video-link the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) torchlight procession in front of Rome's Colosseum from his chapel in his private apartments at the Vatican, Good Friday, March 25, 2005. For the first time in his 26-year pontificate, Pope John Paul II did not attend the Way of the Cross procession Friday night. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, ho)

In this photo released by the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano Pope John Paul II watches Mons. Leonardo Sandri as he delivers the noon Angelus prayer in St.Peter's Square, from Rome's Gemelli Polyclinic hospital where he is hospitalized, Sunday, March 13, 2005. The 84-year-old pontiff is getting breathing and speech therapy after Feb. 24 throat surgery to ease his second respiratory crisis in a month. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano)

Pope John Paul II prays in his private chapel at the Vatican for the victims of the terrorist attacks in Madrid, Monday March 15, 2004. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano)

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Pope John Paul II prays 03 July 1986 in the Basilica of Chiquinquira during his Pastoral visit to Colombia from 01 to 08 July (his 30th International Pastoral visit).

Pope John Paul II signs the 13th encyclical ''Fides et Ratio'' (Faith and Reason) at the Vatican Thursday, Oct. 15 1998. The encyclical, timed for the 20th anniversary of the Pope's election and summing up one of the central themes of his papacy over the past 20 years, warns against the temptations posed by some modern schools of philosophy and theology. (AP Photo/Arturo Mari)

Pope John Paul II signs an encyclical on ecumenism "Ut Unum Sint" ("May They All Be One") at the Vatican, Tuesday, May 30, 1995. The encyclical is John Paul's 12th in 17 years as pope.(AP Photo/Arturo Mari)

Pope John Paul II signs the encyclical ''Evangelium Vitae'' at the Vatican, March 30, 1995. (AP Photo/Arturo Mari)