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The day the Pope died . . . April 2, 2005
PHOTO: Bono kisses the rosary he wears every day at a concert. The rosary was given him by Pope John Paul II in an audience with the "Drop the Debt" people, including Bob Geldof. (www.u2.com)
"On The Death of John Paul II
"Bono has spoken of the passing today of Pope John Paul II.
" 'The best front man the Catholic Church ever had. A great show man, a great communicator of ideas even if you didn't agree with all of them, a great friend to the world’s poor which is how I got to meet him. Without John Paul II its hard to imagine the Drop the Debt campaign succeeding as it did.' "
from www.u2.com
In that same audience, the Pope asked to try on Bono's shades, and KEPT THEM!
Bono on his "crusading (April 2005)":
04.04.2005
‘Music and Mission are One’
Robert Hilburn of the LA Times talks to Bono and Edge after opening night.
"Look, I'm sick of Bono and I am Bono," the leader of U2 said ... about how he's always in the news, either for his music or his social activism.
Given his nonstop schedule, writes Robert Hilburn of the LA Times, it was no surprise to learn on the way to an interview with him in West Hollywood last week that Bono was running 20 minutes late. It's a wonder he wasn't running days late.
As part of his crusade to combat Third World poverty, Bono has met with government leaders, industry titans and religious figures, including the late Pope John Paul II, who gave him a rosary during their visit.
"I'm not sure if it's Catholic guilt or what, but I genuinely believe that second only to personal redemption, the most important thing in the Scriptures — 2,103 passages in all — refers to taking care of the world's poor," Bono said when he finally arrived for lunch on the patio of a Sunset Boulevard hotel.
"Each generation has to ask itself what it wants to be remembered for. Previous generations have ushered in civil rights in America, gotten rid of apartheid in South Africa and brought down the Iron Curtain.
"I think this generation can bring that kind of energy and conviction to problems in Africa. There are 6,000 people a day dying there just because we can't get them drugs that are available in the West. If we don't do something to change that, we are going to look in history like barbarians."
(LA Times via www.u2.com)
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