Rock on: Concert planned in Pope's home town to celebrate 80th birthday

Pope John Paul II is celebrating his 80th birthday today. A special mass on this occasion is to be celebrated at St Peter's Square in the Vatican. In his birthplace of Wadowice in southern Poland, a rock concert has been planned. Among the artists in the line-up are Maryla Radowicz, Kayah, and Sojka. Other notable developments on the Pope's birthday include a dedication in the form of a poem by the Polish Nobel Prize for literature laureate Czaslaw Milosz featured on the front page of Gazeta Wyborza. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 1). S.M.