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SISTER MARY/ SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH SISTER MARY OF THE CROSS, A CLOISTERED NUN FROM SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY WHO ATTENDED THIS WEEK'S MASS BY POPE JOHN PAUL IN NEARBY NEWARK.

WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL REVIEWS THE NEW MOVIE "DEAD PRESIDENTS."

THE GREENBRIER HOTEL IN WEST VIRGINIA RECENTLY ACQUIRED SOMETHING THAT WAS HIDDEN UNDERNEATH ITS POSH INTERIOR SINCE THE 1950'S.

Daniel talks with the authors of "Modus Operandi: A Writer's Guide to How Criminals Work." Mauro Corvasce and Joseph Paglino are police detectives in New Jersey. They say many of the criminal acts portrayed on TV and in novels are inaccurate or incomplete.

Reporter Robin White reports on a parasite responsible for killing oneybees in the U.S. Honeybees provide an essential link in the agriculture ood chain.

Daniel speaks with NPR's Lynn Neary about the Pope's visit to the United States this week. During his trip, which included appearances in New Jersey, New York, and Baltimore, the Pope appealed to Americans to be sensitive to the needs of the poor and sickly, and to young people to devote their lives to the church by becoming priests and nuns.

This weekend, the politically powerful Christian oalition met in Washington to iron out a few issues for its political agenda. PR's Jon Greenberg reports on some of the coalition's main concerns, including here Presidential hopefuls Robert Dole (K-KS) and Phil Gramm (R-TX) stand on bortion.

Charles Boyd is a lone juror who held out against convicting a defendant in a Maryland court recently, and he did so because of some lessons he learned from the OJ Simpson case. Danny talks to Boyd about his courtroom experience.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews, including House Speaker Newt Gingrich; Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle D-SD); Amtrak crash survivor Hortencia (hore-TEN-shyuh) Orgeta; Amtrak resident Thomas Downs; FBI agent Larry McCormack; Senator Bill Roth (R-Del); enate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD); and Senator Phil Gramm (R-Tx).

Bill Zeeble of member station KERA in Dallas reports on the performance this weekend of the rarely-heard Khachaturian Concerto which features the flexatone, an eerie-sounding percussion instrument which is very difficult to play.