Poles pray for their Pope
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Millions of ordinary Poles offered prayers Wednesday for their country's most famous son, Pope John Paul II, who is hospitalized in Rome.
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LOURDES, France - A frail Pope John Paul II, breathing heavily and gasping at times, celebrated an open-air Mass on Sunday for several hundred thousand pilgrims, many in wheelchairs, at a shrine to the Virgin Mary that is associated with miraculous cures.    At one point he said "help me" in Polish while struggling through his homily in French...
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A Roman Catholic radio station that has been accused of anti-Semitism and criticized by the Vatican was praised Thursday by the prime minister as a source of 'comfort and hope' for Poles.Comment
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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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Pope Benedict XVI and the spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians prayed together in an Istanbul church Thursday, a service intended to underline their commitment to healing the 1,000-year-old rift between the two churches.
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Poland gave German-born Pope Benedict a  warm but sparse reception on Thursday as he began a visit to  honor his predecessor John Paul and help banish lingering  ghosts of &quot;that tragic tyranny&quot; of Nazi terror.
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Pope Benedict  joined a chorus of Polish calls urging quick sainthood for his  predecessor John Paul, saying he hoped the Catholic Church  would soon bestow the honor on its favorite son.
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On his way to his birthplace in Germany, Pope Benedict XVI tried to give a positive outlook to the faithful in his homeland
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Pope Benedict XVI, making sentimental stops in his predecessor&#039;s homeland, brought joy to Poles by announcing that he hopes John Paul II will be made a saint &quot;in the near future.&quot;
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Pope John Paul, convalescing after  10 days in hospital, asked the world's sick Friday to pray for  him at a special Mass for the ill.
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Pope Benedict XVI traveled to the city of Altoetting to hold Mass on Monday, as his sentimental homecoming to Bavaria drew well-wishers and Roman Catholics eager to hear his words.
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Pope Benedict XVI raised the loudest cheers of his visit to Poland when he told the late John Paul II&#039;s compatriots that their prayers were bringing his predecessor ever closer to sainthood.
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A frail Pope John Paul II joined other ailing pilgrims Saturday for a weekend of prayer at a cliffside shrine to the Virgin Mary, where Roman Catholics seek hope, inner peace and miraculous cures.
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The Pope prays for victims of the Asian wave disaster at his annual New Year address in Rome.
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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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People in Pope John Paul II's Polish hometown prayed Wednesday for their most famous son as coverage of his hospitalization dominated front pages and airwaves.
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Tucked away in the rolling  hills of southern Poland, this sleepy provincial town is slowly  becoming a pilgrimage destination for Roman Catholics devoted  to its most famous son, the late Pope John Paul.