Pope revives old Latin Mass, sparks Jewish concern
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Pope Benedict, in a decree issued on Saturday, authorized wider use of the old Latin Mass and told the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics that his nod to Church traditionalists was nothing to be afraid of.
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Pope John Paul II was back at the Vatican on Friday after overcoming breathing problems that required emergency hospitalization and left many wondering how he would continue in his papacy with such frail health.
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Colin Riley has gone obediently to Mass since boyhood, but he was mumbling apologies for raw words the other day to a statue of Jesus in the quiet sanctuary of St. Albert the Great. He was seething over efforts to close his church and others around Boston.
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ROME -- Pope Pius XII ordered the church in France not to return Jewish children to their parents if they had been baptized into the Catholic faith to save them from the Nazis, according to a 1946 letter obtained by a historian.
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MUNICH, Germany  - Pope Benedict made an emotional   return to his Bavarian homeland on Saturday, saying his first   visit since being elected head of the Roman Catholic Church 17   months ago filled him with memories.
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Pope Benedict XVI's challenge to secularism has been met with receptivity during his German visit.
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A Jewish group said Sunday it plans to "modify" its publicity campaign to fight anti-Semitism that showed an image of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary with the slur "Dirty Jew" scrawled across it to mimic graffiti after it drew negative reactions.
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Pope John Paul II ushered in Christmas on Friday by lighting a candle for peace in his window and then celebrating midnight Mass in a new test of the 84-year-old pontiff's frail health.
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VATICAN CITY - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert asked Pope Benedict to denounce a conference in Iran questioning the Holocaust, an Olmert aide said on Wednesday.The Israeli leader and the ...Comment
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Pope John Paul spent a second  night in hospital after emergency treatment for breathing  problems and the Vatican moved to assuage fears for the  84-year-old Pontiff.
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Some 160 Jewish leaders, rabbis and cantors plan to meet with Pope John Paul II on Tuesday to thank him for his efforts to improve relations between Roman Catholics and Jews.
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Church bells pealed across Munich as Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday began a six-day homecoming to his native Bavaria in the city where he served as priest and archbishop more than a quarter-century ago.
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A Jewish group said Sunday it plans to &quot;modify&quot; an anti-Semitism publicity campaign that showed images of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary after the advertisements drew negative reactions.
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PARIS  - A Jewish group said Sunday it plans to "modify" an anti-Semitism publicity campaign that showed images of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary after the advertisements drew negative reactions.
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Pope John Paul returned relics of two early Christian saints to the Patriarch of Constantinople Saturday in another bid to warm ties with eastern Orthodoxy.
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VIENNA - Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged Europe's tragic past and warned of its uncertain future yesterday as he honored Jews killed in the Holocaust and urged the continent to accept its Christian heritage.
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NEW YORK -- Pope Benedict XVI has signed a document that would allow more churches to adopt the old Latin Mass that largely faded from use during the 1960s, when the groundbreaking Second Vatican Council opened the door to worship in the local vernacular, Vatican officials say.