HIS ascension to the papacy was completely unexpected - the first non-Italian in 455 years and the youngest in 132 years - but the election of Cardinal Karol Jozef Wojtyla of Krakow, Poland, in 1978 turned out to be only the biggest surprise of his pontificate and nowhere near the only one.
OAKLAND will make history on Easter when three of its largest Christian churches come together in the Oakland Arena for their faith's holiest day of the year.
