In Pope John Paul II's first Christmas sermon, he shared his dream of making a pilgrimage to Israel, Jordan and the painful patchwork of land in between.
Any papal trip is a big news story.
It's like an ancient mosaic that includes many shattered pieces, but the image is still there for all to see. Here is one of those stories. It's a story that even brought tears to the eyes of some journalists, when told by the chief rabbi of Israel. He told me he remembers seeing him walking to the synagogue on Shabbat, surrounded by children. In the winter of 1942, Jewish parents were forced to make agonizing choices as the Nazis swept through the ghettos of Poland.