Pope John Paul celebrates midnight Mass
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Midnight Mass was celebrated at the Vatican. People there waited in line for hours to get inside St. Peter&#39;s Basilica for the Christmas service.
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Pope John Paul II greeted tens of thousands of Italian scouts in St. Peter's Square on Saturday, saying the strong turnout by young faithful "gladdened his heart."
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Christians around the world celebrated Christmas Saturday with Pope John Paul II leading prayers for peace and a more tranquil future, as pilgrims flocked to Bethlehem, and Iraqis
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Pope Benedict XVI celebrated a giant mass Sunday at Loreto -- home to one of Italy&#39;s most cherished Christian shrines -- by appealing to young people to eschew pride, violence and consumerism.
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Pope John Paul has said Mass for several hundred thousand people and put two Italians and a Spaniard who lived in the 20th century on the road to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.
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Vatican, Dec. 24  - Pope John Paul II (bio - news) is prepared to lead the Vatican celebration of Christmas, following what has become his usual schedule: an early-evening appearance from the window of his apartment, midnight Mass in St.
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LOURDES, France - A frail Pope John Paul II, breathing heavily and gasping at times, celebrated an open-air Mass on Sunday for several hundred thousand pilgrims, many in wheelchairs, at a shrine to the Virgin Mary that is associated with miraculous cures.    At one point he said "help me" in Polish while struggling through his homily in French...
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Pope John Paul II thanked well-wishers Sunday for their messages and prayers as he celebrated the 26th anniversary of his election as pontiff.
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Pope John Paul led the world's one  billion Roman Catholics into Christmas Day and said the  troubled world needed the message of Jesus more than ever,  braving Parkinson's Disease to deliver his sermon.
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Jerusalem- Pop diva Madonna made a midnight pilgrimage to a Jerusalem cemetery early today, holding a mystical candlelit ceremony at the grave of a Jewish sage.
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Pope John Paul II ushered in the Christmas holiday, lighting a candle for peace in his window Friday before celebrating midnight Mass in a new test of the 84-year-old pontiff's frail health.
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Pope John Paul II is "quite well" after spending a peaceful night in hospital, a Vatican source says.
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Pope John Paul II was greeted Sunday by about 200,000 pilgrims at a shrine in Loreto, Italy, where he beatified three future saints.
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Pope John Paul II vowed Sunday to continue his mission despite his latest health crisis, telling the faithful from the hospital in a message read by an archbishop that he was grateful for their prayers and affection.
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Pope John Paul spent a second  night in hospital after emergency treatment for breathing  problems but Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he  was optimistic he would recover quickly.
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VATICAN CITY Oct. 3, 2004 - Pope John Paul II on Sunday honored two figures linked to controversy, beatifying a German mystic whose violent visions of Christ&#39;s suffering helped inspire Mel Gibson&#39;s &quot;The
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VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II is making a steady recovery from flu and breathing difficulties and Vatican officials hope he will be strong enough to address Roman Catholic faithful on Sunday from his hospital suite.