Pope says mass as he prepares for Auschwitz visit
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A huge crowd attended a mass  with Pope Benedict in Poland on Sunday as he prepared to visit  the Auschwitz death camp to pray as leader of the world&#039;s Roman  Catholics and a &quot;son of Germany.&quot;
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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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Pope Benedict XVI is planning numerous trips abroad in the coming year to the United Nations, Australia, Austria and a shrine in Lourdes, France, the Vatican spokesman said Sunday.
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LOURDES, France - A frail Pope John Paul II celebrated an open-air Mass on Sunday as several hundred thousand pilgrims, many in wheelchairs, crowded onto a field near a French shrine to the Virgin Mary that is associated with miraculous cures of the sick.    The Mass was a highlight of the Pope's two-day visit to Lourdes, a town in the Pyrenees where Roman Catholic tradition says St...
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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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Several thousand faithful packed a square in central Vienna Sunday as Pope Benedict XVI wrapped up a three-day visit to Austria with a Mass and a stop at a medieval abbey outside the capital.
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MUNICH, Germany  - Pope Benedict hopes his   homecoming this weekend to the Catholic heartland of Bavaria   will revive faith in Germany as more than half a million   pilgrims prepare to welcome him.
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Pope John Paul II ( bio - news ) will travel to Loreto, Italy, on Sunday, September 5, for a Mass and beatification ceremony that will conclude the annual pilgrimage of Italian Catholic Action.
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Pope John Paul will make a public  appearance to bless the faithful from his hospital suite on  Sunday but the Pontiff is not yet strong enough to read his  customary noon message.
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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 John Paul II ushered in Christmas today by celebrating Midnight Mass at St. Peter&#39;s Basilica, praying that world leaders will strive for peace and that Jews, Muslims
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The Vatican releases the text of a speech that the Pope was due to have at a visit to Rome University.
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Pope Benedict XVI is due to arrive in Munich for a second "more personal" visit to his homeland, Bavaria.
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Memorial ... visitors walk through the gates at Auschwitz. EUROPE united in collective sorrow and shame at yesterday's commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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Outgoing PM will travel to the Vatican to meet the Pope in preparation for his conversion.
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Hundreds of thousands of people are are expected to attend an open-air mass today when Pope John Paul II visits the marian shrine in Loreto, about 125 miles northeast of Rome.
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LOURDES, France  - Pope John Paul, a sick man  among the sick, wound up a emotional visit to this miracle  shrine Sunday and struggled with iron determination to finish a  sermon in order to encourage others suffering around him.