Pope Celebrates His 26th Anniversary
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Thousands of well-wishers have showered Pope John Paul II with greetings for the 26th anniversary of his election as pontiff, many of them thanking him for speaking out against preventive war, his spokesman said Saturday.
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Poles gave German-born Pope Benedict XVI an enthusiastic welcome Thursday as he arrived for a four-day visit intended to honor predecessor John Paul II and further German-Polish reconciliation from the wounds of World War II.
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Pope Benedict XVI set off Sunday for a six-day homecoming pilgrimage to southern Germany that will include a visit to the town where he was born.
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Pope Benedict XVI arrived back in Rome after a 26-hour visit to the Spanish city of Valencia to deliver a message to the faithful to defend the traditional family against sweeping secularism.
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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 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 Benedict XVI named four new saints Sunday from France, Malta, the Netherlands and Poland at a ceremony in St. Peter's Square attended by several heads of state and thousands of faithful.
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OGGI SU INTERNET/EUROPA - 40Â° anniversario della ComunitÃ  di Sant'Egidio Roma (Agenzia Fides) - La ComunitÃ  di SantÂEgidio celebra 40 anni con una Liturgia Eucaristica presieduta dal Cardinale Tarcisio Bertone, Segretario di Stato di Sua SantitÃ , nella Basilica di S. Giovanni in Laterano, VenerdÃ¬ 1 febbraio 2008 ore 18.30...
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Pope John Paul 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&#39;s frail health.
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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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Pope Benedict XVI says family values are key to world peace, in his New Year's Day Mass.
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Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Mass for 30,000 people at the 850-year-old shrine of Mariazell in Austria.
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The Pope prays for victims of the Asian wave disaster at his annual New Year address in Rome.
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A photo of a bonfire taken by a Polish construction worker is creating a stir for the resemblance of the flames to a silhouette of the country's beloved son, the late Pope John Paul II.
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MUNICH, Germany  - Pope Benedict returns to his   Bavarian roots on Saturday when he starts a nostalgic six-day   trip to his southern German homeland and some of its most   traditionally Catholic places.
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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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Pope John Paul II ushered in Christmas on Friday celebrating midnight Mass at St. Peter&#39;s Basilica, where worshipers prayed for world leaders to strive for peace and for