Pope Plans U.N. Pilgrimage, East Coast Trek
Pope John Paul II may return to the United States this year, on a lightning East Coast visit.
Vatican sources said Friday the 73-year-old pontiff hopes to address the United Nations in New York as it observes its 50th anniversary.
Planning is incomplete, but the late October stop in New York could be followed by short pastoral visits to Newark, N.J., and Baltimore, the sources said.
Neither city has been among the Pope’s stops on three previous U.S. visits, the last to Denver in August to mark his church’s World Youth Day. John Paul last addressed the General Assembly in 1979 on his first U.S. visit the year after he was elected.
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