POPE John Paul II last week prayed that Americans would shun the temptation to respond with hatred and violence to massive co-ordinated terrorist attacks on US soil.
‘I turn my heartbroken thoughts even now to all the sons and daughters of that great nation,’ the United States, the Pope said after a Mass last Sunday.
‘May (the Virgin Mary) help all not to give in to the temptation of hate and violence, but to commit themselves to the service of justice and peace,’ he told about 40,000 people in Frosinone, 70 km south east of Rome.
‘May Mary welcome the deceased, console the survivors, sustain the families that have been most tried,’ he said.
