Byline: CELESTINE BOHLEN New York Times
GYOR, Hungary -- The health of Pope John Paul II is once again a recurring theme, not just within the watchful Vatican press corps, but among ordinary Roman Catholics who are concerned to see their once-robust Pope looking tired and frail.
On a two-day trip to Hungary, the 76-year-old pontiff has puzzled and worried observers, at times withdrawing into an unsmiling immobility, with slumped posture and fixed stare, and then, within minutes, getting back on his feet, laboriously but flawlessly carrying on with his diplomatic and ecclesiastical duties.
At the conclusion of a two-hour Mass Saturday attended by an …
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