Pope John Paul II prays during a meeting with Rome's university students in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, April 1, 2000. During the ceremony students from the Roman LUMSSA University offered the Pope the crucifix that will be placed in the center of St. Peter's Square on the occasion of the World Youth's day that will be celebrated next August 2000. (AP photo/Marco Ravagli)

This April 1, 2000 file photo shows Pope John Paul II holding a Rosary in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Teaching children the Catholic rosary - the joyful mysteries on Monday and Thursday, the sorrowful ones on Tuesday and Friday and glorious mysteries on Wednesday and Sunday - is already a lot of events to remember (15 in all). Now Sunday schools must decide how to teach the five additional events in the newest rosary prayers: the luminous mysteries, or mysteries of light. (AP Photo/Marco Ravagli, File)

PHOTO: EAST NEWS JAN PAWEL II PRZY SCIANIE PLACZU - SWIETYM MIEJSCU JUDAIZMU W JEROZOLIMIE. Pope John Paul II touches in prayer the Wailing Wall, the holiest site in Judaism, 26 March 2000 in Jerusalem. The pope was on the second stop of a politically charged tour of three sites holy to Muslims, Jews and Christians on his last day in the Holy Land. (ELECTRONIC IMAGE)

PHOTO: EAST NEWS PIELGRZYMKA JANA PAWLA II DO ZIEMI SWIETEJ: PAPIEZ MODLI SIE W BAZYLICE ZWIASTOWANIA W NAZARECIE. Pope John Paul II kneels in prayer 25 March 2000 in the grotto over the spot where Christian tradition says the Angel Gabriel told the Virgin Mary she would give birth to Jesus Christ in the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth. The pope delivered mass on the day celebrated by Christians as the date of Annunciation 2,000 years before. (ELECTRONIC IMAGE)

PHOTO: EAST NEWS PIELGRZYMKA JANA PAWLA II DO ZIEMI SWIETEJ: PAPIEZ MODLI SIE W BAZYLICE ZWIASTOWANIA W NAZARECIE. Pope John Paul II kneels in prayer in the grotto of the Basilica of the Annunciation at the place where Christians say the Angel Gabriel told the Virgin Mary she would bear the Son of God as he continues his spiritual pilgrimage retracing the sites of Jesus' life in the Holy Land 25 March. The Pope held a mass in the Basilica for 2,000 worshippers.

PHOTO: EAST NEWS PIELGRZYMKA PAPIEZA JANA PAWLA II DO EGIPTU: STAROGRECKI ORTODOKSYJNY KLASZTOR SW KATARZYNY. Pope John Paul II prays in front of the altar of St. Catherine's Monastery Greek Orthodox during a visit to this biblical site 26 February 2000. The Pope, visiting the site where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments, said on Saturday modern society still needed God's law to save it from egoism and hatred. ml/POOL

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/WOJTEK LASKI Siodma pielgrzymka papieza Jana Pawla II do Polski. Prywatna papieska wizyta w klasztorze na Jasnej Gorze, Czestochowa, 17.06.1999. N/Z: papiez Jan Pawel II przed obrazem Czarnej Madonny, Matki Boskiej Czestochowskiej. 7th apostolic journey of Pope John Paul II to Poland. Private papal visit to Jasna Gora, Czestochowa, Poland, 17/06/1999. Pictured: Pope John Paul II before the icon of Black Madonna.

le pape Jean-Paul II prie le 17 juin 1999 devant l'ic?ne de la vierge noire r Czestochowa, o? quelque 30 000 fidcles lui ont reserve un accueil enthousiaste. Le souverain pontife, qui termine n voyage de 13 jours en Pologne, devrait regagner Rome ce soir. Pope John Paul II prays at the altar of the Black Madonna in the Jasna Gora Monastery in Czestochowa some 300 km south of Warsaw 17 June 1999. Jasna Gora is the main Catholic celebration place in Poland. (ELECTRONIC IMAGE)

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/WOJTEK LASKI Siodma pielgrzymka papieza Jana Pawla II do Polski, Wadowice, 16.06.1999 N/z: papiez podczas modlitwy w miejscowej bazylice, gdzie zostal ochrzczony Wadowice - a village near Cracow, where Pope was born and grown up. Here: Pope in Basilica where He was baptisted

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/ WOJTEK LASKI Siodma pielgrzymka papieza Jana Pawla II do Polski, Radzymin, 13.06.1999 N/z: papiez podczas modlitwy na cmentarzu ofiar wojny 1920 r. Pope's 7th Visit to Poland 13.06.1999 Radzymin Pope saying prayer at the Cementary of the Vistims of the battle of 1920

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Pope John Paul II prays 27 January, during a prayer service at the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica in St. Louis, MO. The Pope met with US President Bill Clinton 26 January upon his arrival in St. Louis, and is scheduled to return to Rome 27 January. (ELECTRONIC IMAGE) AFP PHOTO Paul J. RICHARDS

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/WOJTEK LASKI VI pielgrzymka papieza Jana Pawla II do Polski, Jasna Gora, Czestochowa, 04.06.1997. N/z: papiez podczas modlitwy w Kaplicy Cudownego Obrazu - Matki Boskiej Czestochowskiej

PHOTO: WOJTEK LASKI / EAST NEWS VI pielgrzymka papieza Jana Pawla II do Polski. Papiez pograzony w modlitwie przed relikwiami sw. Wojciecha w katedrze gnieznienskiej - Bazylika Prymasowska Wniebowziecia Najswietszej Maryi Panny, Gniezno, 03.06.1997. 6th apostolic journey of Pope John Paul II to Poland. John Paul II praying at the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Adalbert in Gniezno, Poland, 03/06/1997.

PHOTO: WOJTEK LASKI / EAST NEWS VI pielgrzymka papieza Jana Pawla II do Polski. Papiez pograzony w modlitwie przed relikwiami sw. Wojciecha w katedrze gnieznienskiej - Bazylika Prymasowska Wniebowziecia Najswietszej Maryi Panny, Gniezno, 03.06.1997. 6th apostolic journey of Pope John Paul II to Poland. John Paul II praying at the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Adalbert in Gniezno, Poland, 03/06/1997.

PHOTO: WOJTEK LASKI / EAST NEWS VI pielgrzymka papieza Jana Pawla II do Polski. Papiez pograzony w modlitwie przed relikwiami sw. Wojciecha w katedrze gnieznienskiej - Bazylika Prymasowska Wniebowziecia Najswietszej Maryi Panny, Gniezno, 03.06.1997. 6th apostolic journey of Pope John Paul II to Poland. John Paul II praying at the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Adalbert in Gniezno, Poland, 03/06/1997.

PHOTO: WOJTEK LASKI / EAST NEWS VI pielgrzymka papieza Jana Pawla II do Polski. Papiez pograzony w modlitwie przed relikwiami sw. Wojciecha w katedrze gnieznienskiej - Bazylika Prymasowska Wniebowziecia Najswietszej Maryi Panny, Gniezno, 03.06.1997. 6th apostolic journey of Pope John Paul II to Poland. John Paul II praying at the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Adalbert in Gniezno, Poland, 03/06/1997.

Fot.: Grzegorz Galazka/East News Papiez Jan Pawel II modli sie przy grobie rodzinnym Wojtylow na Cmentarzu Rakowickim, Krakow, Polska, czerwiec 1997.

FILE--Pope John Paul II prays intensely during the feast of the immaculate conception at the Spanish Steps in Rome, December 8, 1995. (AP Photo/Giulio Broglio/FILE)

Pope John Paul II stands up from a prayer chair with the help of his arms after praying on the tomb of St Remi in St. Remi basilica in Reims, eastern France, Sunday Sept. 22, 1996. Pope John Paul II is concluding a four-day visit to France, where he celebrated three grand masses in front of hundred of thousands of worshippers. (AP PHOTO/POOL/Jerome Delay)

Pope John Paul II prays on the tomb of St Remi in St. Remi basilica in Reims, eastern France, Sunday Sept. 22, 1996. Pope John Paul II is concluding a four-day visit to France, where he celebrated three grand masses in front of thousands of worshippers. (AP PHOTO/POOL/Jerome Delay)