Mexican Catholics still enamored of Pope John Paul II, underwhelmed by upcoming Benedict visit

MEXICO CITY ? In a country at least nominally 90 percent Catholic, you would think the news of another papal visit would be met with jubilation.

It?s not that the millions of faithful in Mexico aren?t happy about Pope Benedict XVI?s upcoming visit, expected before Easter next year.

It?s just that they can?t drum up the same kind of emotion they had for his predecessor, the late Pope John Paul II, a man so beloved that the Vatican was presenting his relics, a vial of blood and a wax likeness, in more than 100 locations throughout the country.

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