HUNDREDS of doting pilgrims packed into the streets of Vatican City on a sunny May afternoon to greet the Pope John Paul II - and then four gunshots rang out. [96] Letters that he wrote to her were part of a collection of documents sold by Tymieniecka's estate in 2008 to the National Library of Poland. "[229] In April 1986, John Paul II said: "With Judaism, therefore, we have a relationship which we do not have with any other religion. The death of the pontiff set in motion rituals and traditions dating back to medieval times. The pope confided to a friend: "I received a letter from Pinochet in which he told me that as a Catholic he had listened to my words, he had accepted them, and he had decided to begin the process to change the leadership of his country. [120][121][229] In part of his address he said: "I assure the Jewish people the Catholic Church is deeply saddened by the hatred, acts of persecution and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews by Christians at any time and in any place." [57] Wojtya also helped a 14-year-old Jewish refugee girl named Edith Zierer,[58] who had escaped from a Nazi labour camp in Czstochowa. Europe needs Poland. Throughout the conflict, he appealed to the international community to stop the war, and after it was over led diplomatic initiatives to negotiate peace in the Middle East. It was the single largest gathering of heads of state up to that time, surpassing the funerals of Winston Churchill (1965) and Josip Broz Tito (1980). Others knelt down in prayer, some using the rosaries they had brought for the Pope to bless. John Paul II was badly hurt. [216] About 200 thousand people attended the liturgies celebrated by the Pope in Kyiv, and the liturgy in Lviv gathered nearly one and a half million faithful. During his homily, he encouraged prayers for the early canonisation of John Paul II and stated that he hoped canonisation would happen "in the near future".[326][331]. John Paul II was considered a conservative on doctrine and issues relating to human sexual reproduction and the ordination of women. 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