- Title: ITALY: POPE PAUL RETURNS HOME TO TRIUMPHANT WELCOME AFTER BOMBAY VISIT.
- Date: 6th December 1964
- Summary: 1. LV AIRCRAFT TAXIING 0.05 2. MV DITTO 0.08 3. LV CROWD 0.11 4. MV POPE DOWN PLANE STEPS 0.17 5. LV DITTO 0.28 6. MV CROWD 0.30 7. MLV POPE INTO CAR AND AWAY 0.34 8. LV POPE'S CAR INTO VATICAN SQUARE 0.49 9. MV POPE'S CAR PULLS UP AT DOORWAY OF VATICAN 1.04 10. MV POPE WALKS TO VATICAN DOOR 1.29 11
- Embargoed: 21st December 1964 12:00
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- Location: ROME AND VATICAN CITY
- Country: Italy
- Reuters ID: LVA1DA4QQVE8L0CZ91DUO80GN34T
- Story Text: EIGHT HOURS AFTER LEAVING BOMBAY, POPE PAUL'S JET AIRLINER ARRIVED AT ROME AIRPORT -- THE END OF HIS HISTORIC VISIT TO INDIA. POPE PAUL HAD BECOME THE FIRST PONTIFF IN 20 CENTURIES OF CHRISTIANITY TO VISIT ASIA. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ROMANS BRAVED BITTER WEATHER TO GREET THE POPE ON HIS RETURN.
HE WAS GREETED BY ITALY'S PRIME MINISTER, SIGNOR ALDO MORO, WHO SAID THE WORLD UNDERSTOOD "THE MESSAGE OF FAITH, HUMANITY, SOLIDARITY AND PEACE" WHICH THE POPE HAD LAUNCHED AGAIN DURING HIS SECOND GREAT APOSTOLIC JOURNEY.
THEN THE TRIUMPHANT JOURNEY TO VATICAN CITY. DESPITE THE WEATHER, THE POPE STOOD IN AN OPEN CAR TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND BLESS THOUSANDS OF REJOICING PEOPLE LINING THE ROUTE TO THE VATICAN. THE WELCOME EQUALLED THAT HE RECEIVED ON HIS RETURN FROM HIS FIRST GREAT PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND IN JANUARY.
A FEW MINUTES AFTER ENTERING THE PALACE, POPE PAUL APPEARED ON THE BALCONY OVERLOOKING ST. PETER'S SQUARE. HE TOLD THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN THE SQUARE THE HE HAD MET MILLIONS OF "GOODS SOULS" IN INDIA. HE SAID EVENTS DURING HIS TRIP TO BOMBAY HAD GIVEN SIGNS WHICH HAD TO BE MEDITATED. HE HAD EXPERIENCED A "LIVING GOSPEL" DURING HIS VISIT, WHICH HAD DEMONSTRATED THE UNIVERSAL CHARACTER OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
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