Pope John Paul II appears for the first time after surgery at the window of the Gemelli Hospital in Rome in this July 26, 1992 photo. Pope John Paul II, the Polish pontiff who led the Roman Catholic Church for more than a quarter century and became history's most-traveled pope, has died at 84, the Vatican announced in an e-mail Saturday, April 2, 2005. (AP Photo/Massimo Sambucetti)