'You're crazy', Pope tells actor
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The Pope tells an actor that he is "crazy" to portray him in a television drama about his life.
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From Freaks  and Geeks to  The 40-Year-Old Virgin, he's the patron saint of misfits. Inside the mind of writer-director  Judd Apatow.
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Pope Benedict XVI's comments on religious radicalism are another sign of his intention to bring his voice into one of the world's most critical showdowns: Islam's internal struggles between moderates and extremists.
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The man who shot and seriously wounded Pope John Paul II has warned Pope Benedict XVI not to visit Turkey after making comments that many Muslims deemed to have maligned Islam, the gunman's lawyer said Wednesday.
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President George W. Bush said he discussed the fate of Iraqi Christians as well as AIDS and U.S. immigration with Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday. Bush said he found himself "in awe" of Benedict, whom he described as a "smart, loving man." Earlier, the pope seemed to catch the president off-guard when he asked him about a meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin.
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Vatican relations with the Islamic world must be restarted from square one because Muslims insist on misinterpreting Pope Benedict's recent comments on Islam, Germany's top Catholic cardinal said in an article on Wednesday.
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Comment is free: Simon Jenkins: I'm an atheist but still I resent this joker in Rome slighting my community. A residual theological chauvinism is aroused.
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There is emotional reaction to the Pope's appearance to read his traditional Sunday blessing from hospital, as the BBC's Katya Adler reports.
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VATICAN CITY Pope John Paul says the attacks on family values are growing more radical each day. The pope&#39;s targets in a Saturday speech to Italian family groups included initiatives he says &quot;confuse individual
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BERLIN -- Pope Benedict XVI yesterday said he was ``deeply sorry" that his use of a quotation from a medieval text critical of the prophet Mohammed has stirred outrage across the Islamic world, insisting the words did not represent his personal opinion.
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Pope Benedict XVI warned Sunday against seeking happiness in drugs or other "artificial paradises" and the self-centered quest for "pleasure at all costs."
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Pope Benedict said on Wednesday   his use in a speech of medieval quotes critical of Islam, which   infuriated Muslims worldwide, did not reflect his own   convictions and were misunderstood.
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Pope John Paul II showed his illness has become a part of his message during a draining pilgrimage to Lourdes, raising more questions over how long he can last, but the extent of his Parkinson's disease did not diminish a strong political content in his speeches.
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Pope Benedict XVI said yesterday that he is "deeply sorry" about the reaction in some countries to a recent speech in which he quoted a 14th-century Byzantine emperor as saying that the prophet Muhammad brought "only evil and inhuman" things to the world.
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Never one to shrink from  criticism, Pope John Paul is again putting controversial  figures on the road to sainthood, including Austria's last  emperor and a mystic nun who inspired Mel Gibson's film on  Christ's passion.
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Pope Benedict XVI's personal preacher asked the pontiff Friday to declare a day of fasting and penance to publicly declare repentance and express solidarity with the victims of clerical sex abuse.
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Italian actor Nanni Moretti on Wednesday defended himself against accusations of vulgarity from the Catholic Church prompted by a graphic sex scene he performs in his latest movie.