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Rescue workers dig through rubble from the destroyed World Trade Center in Manhattan, NY. (Photo: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons) Several weeks after Islamist terrorists hijacked four planes, wreaking havoc in lower Manhattan and at the Pentagon in the name of deranged religious convictions, I was at dinner in the papal apartment with John Paul II and three of his closest associates. The mood was somber, which was unusual at that table. The pope’s hope for a “new springt