Weary Pope heads for loyal Malta on last leg of pilgrimage
Pope John Paul II was today heading for Malta - a bastion of his own church - to close a journey that challenged the stamina of the frail pontiff amid momentous gestures for religious reconciliation with others.
But the pilgrimage which followed the steps of the Apostle Paul through Greece and Syria also displayed the 80-year-old pope’s determination to continue the history-shaping acts that have defined his papacy.
