Pope Benedict XVI returns to Germany
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Greeted by a thunderous chorus of church bells, Pope Benedict XVI began a pilgrimage to his native Bavaria on Saturday, a six-day visit laden with meaning for him and the future of his increasingly liberal Roman Catholic flock in Germany.
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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 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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Benedict XVIÂs visit to his home turf in Germany will be in some ways a survey of the remnant that is the European church.
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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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Pope Benedict, leading a  rain-drenched mass in the Austrian mountains, said on Saturday  that Europe&#39;s future would be bleak without more children and a  return to trust in God and traditional values.
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Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday he is greatly concerned about the fate of Christians in Iraq, returning to a theme he discussed with President Bush earlier this month.
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Pope Benedict arrives at the Catholic shrine of Loreto in Italy for an ecologically friendly youth festival.
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On the final stop of his trip to his predecessor's homeland, the German Pope visited the notorious death camp and offered a remarkable meditation on the Holocaust
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Pope John Paul II makes his first Sunday appearance at the Vatican after his recent hospital treatment.
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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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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Pope Benedict in a new effort to heal the Vatican-Orthodox rift.
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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 John Paul II is to make his first Sunday appearance at the Vatican after his recent hospital treatment.
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ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Pope Benedict XVI slipped out of his red Prada loafers and padded in white slippered feet across the carpeted floor of Istanbul's revered Blue Mosque yesterday, in only the second papal visit ever to a Muslim house of worship.
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MUNICH, Germany  - Pope Benedict, continuing a   nostalgic visit to the German city where he served as   archbishop, on Sunday celebrates an outdoor mass expected to   draw hundreds of thousands of people.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury is due in Rome for his first official meeting with Pope Benedict XVI.