Pope on 'personal' German trip
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Pope Benedict XVI speaks emotionally at the start of a six-day visit to his Bavarian homeland in south Germany.
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Pope Benedict XVI begins a three-day pilgrimage to Austria on Friday with a solemn tribute to Jewish Holocaust victims, and an appeal to diplomats serving with the U.N. nuclear agency and other international organizations.Ahead of his visit, Benedict's seventh foreign trip in two years as pope, the German-born pontiff spoke of his affection for Austria, a mostly Catholic country 'which has been near to me since my childhood.'But the pope, who visited and vacationed here often as a cardinal, faced a challenge: Many Austrian believers, disgusted by clergy sex scandals and deeply resentful of a government-imposed church tax, have grown cold _ and tens of thousands have left the church altogether. Read more
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Pope Benedict said on  Thursday even he could not do everything that was expected of  him and advised German priests not to burn themselves out  trying to make up for the growing shortage of Roman Catholic  clerics.
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Pope Benedict XVI began a six-day homecoming pilgrimage Saturday to southern Germany that will include a visit to the town where he was born.
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Pope Benedict's father met his mother by advertising for a wife in a local Roman Catholic newspaper, a German paper reported on Sunday.
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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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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 starts one of the most delicate trips ever made by a pontiff on Tuesday when he travels to Turkey to face simmering anger sparked by his comments on Islam and his past opposition to Ankara's EU bid.
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Pope Benedict XVI, an admittedly reluctant traveler, begins a six-day homecoming pilgrimage to southern Germany on Saturday, retracing his roots in Bavaria.
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Pope Benedict XVI is due to visit his birthplace, the town of Marktl-am-Inn, as part of his six-day trip to Bavaria.
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LORENZAGO DI CADORE, Italy  - Vacation should be a time for Christians not only to relax but to get closer to God, Pope Benedict said on Sunday from his mountain retreat in the Italian Dolomites.
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Benedict XVI has been known to say incendiary things when out on tour. Vatican officials are hoping for a quiet pilgrimage to Vienna
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Pope Benedict XVI is due to begin a four-day visit to Turkey, amid protests against recent comments about Islam.
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Pope John Paul II is planning to make a pilgrimage to Poland, the land of his birth, in June if his health permits it, Polandâs primate was quoted as saying yesterday after returning from a visit to the Vatican.
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VATICAN CITY -- A German man jumped a security barrier and grabbed the back of Pope Benedict XVI's open popemobile before being swarmed by security guards yesterday -- reviving a debate over whether the pontiff needs stronger protection during his public audiences.
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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 said Tuesday that his visit to Turkey is aimed at promoting dialogue and bridging differences, speaking minutes before departing for his first trip as pontiff to a predominantly Muslim country.