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On Idyllic Isle, Pope Assails Moral Decay : Religion: John Paul preaches against the dangers of X-rated videos, materialism and racism as he wraps up his Asian tour.

October 16, 1989 | WILLIAM D. MONTALBANO, TIMES STAFF WRITER

John Paul II, the missionary Pope, ended another year of one of history's most extraordinary papacies here Sunday, inveighing with his trademark Crusaders' zeal against moral decay. In a papal message that ricocheted from poor cane-cutters' shacks to shining beaches strewn with topless European tourists, John Paul scored X-rated videocassettes, seductive materialism and what he denounced as the "blasphemy" of racism.

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On Idyllic Isle, Pope Assails Moral Decay : Religion: John Paul preaches against the dangers of X-rated videos, materialism and racism as he wraps up his Asian tour.

October 16, 1989 | WILLIAM D. MONTALBANO, TIMES STAFF WRITER

John Paul II, the missionary Pope, ended another year of one of history's most extraordinary papacies here Sunday, inveighing with his trademark Crusaders' zeal against moral decay. In a papal message that ricocheted from poor cane-cutters' shacks to shining beaches strewn with topless European tourists, John Paul scored X-rated videocassettes, seductive materialism and what he denounced as the "blasphemy" of racism.

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