Pope John Paul II waves to the faithful from the window of his apartment overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sunday Oct. 15, 1995. The pope looked ahead Sunday to the 17th anniversary of his papacy and asked Roman Catholics to recapture a ??tone of hope'' in the years before the millennium. The conclave of cardinals selected John Paul, then the archbishop of Krakow, Poland, on Oct. 16, 1978. The first Polish pope rapidly reshaped the papacy with his use of mass communications and foreign travel, most recently to the United States. (AP Photo/Giulio Broglio)