Folksy grandeur of a papal visit

By Ian Warden
Updated April 18 2018 - 10:46pm, first published November 6 2012 - 3:00am

Do any of you still have the giant foam plastic hand, the ''Hand of Hope'' you bought to wave to Pope John Paul II when he visited Canberra in November 1986? Do any of you still have the mass-produced periscope (a colleague recalls it being called something like a ''Pope-a-scope'') you bought to use to enable you to catch a glimpse of him, hoisting it above the wall of human backs in front of you?

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