By Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Isabel Kershner Matthew Mpoke Bigg reported from Rome, and Isabel Kershner from Jerusalem ... Pope John Paul II was elected at 58 and served for 26 years.

The pontiff visited the Western Wall and the Holocaust Remembrance Center, Yad Vashem, in Jerusalem in March 2000. “As a determined foe of antisemitism,” he stated, “John Paul would be ...