230,000 attend pope's Mass in Germany
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Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass for 230,000 people Tuesday in a sunny field outside Regensburg, taking his homecoming tour of his native Bavaria to the university town where he once taught theology.
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IT HAS taken three months and almost 23,000 people in 111 countries, but between them they have chosen the âmost beautifulâ German word.
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LORETO, Italy  - Pope John Paul prayed for the  victims of the "inhumane violence" of Russia's Beslan school  tragedy as he said Mass on Sunday before 200,000 people in  central Italy.
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Pope John Paul II was greeted yesterday by about 200,000 pilgrims at a shrine in Loreto, Italy, where he beatified three members of the lay political movement Catholic Action.
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The steps of Cologne&#039;s famous cathedral are a sight to behold, 31 stone stairs stretching almost the length of a football field at their longest point. On this workday, though, the scene on the steps is even more impressive. It&#039;s not even noon, and every spare inch is filled with boisterous World Cup fans dressed in their nation&#039;s colors. The Germans are standing and singing, the English are waving banners, the Swedes are clapping.
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Pope Benedict XVI made a pilgrimage Saturday to a famous shrine to the Virgin Mary, where he celebrated an open-air Mass in the rain for more than 30,000 believers and called on Europeans to embrace faith.
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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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LORETO, Italy : Pope John Paul II defied the elements and debilitating illness to pray for the victims of the Russian hostage crisis at a giant open-air mass in Italy before hundreds of thousands of ecstatic followers.
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A frail Pope John Paul II traveled to a hilltop shrine near the Adriatic Sea on Sunday, putting three more Catholics on the road to sainthood during an open-air Mass attended by some 200,000 pilgrims.
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REGENSBURG, Germany  - Pope Benedict held an open   air mass on Tuesday in the town where he had hoped to spend his   retirement and rejected the use of God's name to justify hatred   and fanaticism.
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About 1,400 people enjoyed authentic German food Saturday at the annual St. John Lutheran Church Oktoberfest celebration, where superbrats and German potato salad were crowd favorites.
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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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Bavarians turned out in their Sunday finest for the open-air mass conducted by favorite son Pope Benedict XVI.
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German-born Pope Benedict XVI walked alone under the infamous &amp;quot;Arbeit Macht Frei&amp;quot; gate at the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau as he began a poignant visit to the site where Hitler&#039;s Germany killed 1.1 million people in World War II.
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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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Pope Benedict XVI praised marriage between a man and a woman as part of God&#039;s &quot;loving plan,&quot; defending the traditional family Sunday at a Mass in Spain attended by hundreds of thousands.
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Pope Benedict XVI speaks emotionally at the start of a six-day visit to his Bavarian homeland in south Germany.