PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Pope John Paul II celebrates mass before some 300,000 people who welcomed him in Gorzow 02 June 1997, on the third day of his 11-day visit to Poland.

Pope John Paul II arrives at the square next to the Church of the First Polish Martyrs Monday, June 2, 1997, to conduct the liturgy and deliver a speech in Gorzow, Poland. After criticizing the shortcomings of Poland s new capitalist system, the pope turned to the presidents of Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Lithuania and Ukraine on Tuesday for support. John Paul's 11-day tour, one of the longest of all papal trips, is his seventh visit home since he assumed the papacy in 1978. (AP Photo/Rudi Blaha)