25 Years Ago, John Paul II Led Us Across the Threshold of Hope

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25 Years Ago, John Paul II Led Us Across the Threshold of Hope
Pope John Paul II, in an unprecedented midnight appearance in his apartment window overlooking St. Peter’s Square, blesses worshippers gathered in St. Peter’s Square to celebrate the new millennium, early Saturday, Jan. 1, 2000.

COMMENTARY: The quiet of Christmas Eve and the revelry of New Year’s marked a great moment of history with Pope St. John Paul the Great.