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Pope longs for visit to Russia he will likely never see.
Byline: Mark McDonald
KAZAN, Russia _ Pope John Paul II has traveled to 129 countries during his 25-year papacy, but he's never once been to Russia. And now, because of a growing anger and distrust between the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches, it seems certain that a papal trip to Russia won't happen.
"This pope has a few dreams left, and one of his biggest dreams is a visit to Russia," said Janusz Poniewierski, author of a best-selling chronicle of John Paul's quarter-century. "The pope has used all his resources to go to Russia, but the Russian Church will not allow it."
"It seems to us that the Vatican only wants the pope to come to Russia to check off another box on the list of countries he has visited," Father Ioan Lapidus, a spokesman for the Orthodox Church, said Wednesday in Moscow.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Pope longs for visit to Russia he will likely never see.