Pope says Mass at Austrian shrine
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Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Mass for 30,000 people at the 850-year-old shrine of Mariazell in Austria.
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Pope John Paul II on Sunday moved five Catholics closer to sainthood, including Austria's last reigning emperor and a German nun whose graphic visions of Christ's suffering helped inspire the blockbuster movie "The Passion of the Christ."
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Pope Benedict will make a six-day  pastoral visit to the state of Bavaria in his German homeland  in September, the Vatican said on Wednesday.
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Elite Austrian commandos and bomb squads checked venues and equipment Thursday, the eve of Pope Benedict XVI's arrival, and authorities said more than 3,500 police officers and soldiers were being deployed for the pontiff's visit.
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Pope Benedict XVI urged the faithful to set aside time in their lives for God and the needy, as he ushered in Christmas early Tuesday by celebrating Midnight Mass in St. Peter's Basilica
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Pope Benedict XVI set off Sunday for a six-day homecoming pilgrimage to southern Germany that will include a visit to the town where he was born.
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Pope John Paul has said Mass for several hundred thousand people and put two Italians and a Spaniard who lived in the 20th century on the road to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.
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Pope Benedict XVI arrived in his home country, Germany, to begin a personal six-day pilgrimage to the Bavarian places that shaped him as a child.
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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 Benedict XVI ushered in Christmas as he led Midnight Mass early Tuesday amid thousands of the faithful who filled St. Peter's Basilica.
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Pope Benedict XVI led a ceremony from the steps of a church ahead of a procession in central Rome on Thursday, a day after a security scare in which a German man tried to jump on the pontiff's jeep in St. Peter's Square.
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Pope John Paul has declared two controversial figures blessed - the last stage of beatification before sainthood. One of them is Emperor Karl of Austria, a devout Catholic, who has been criticised for authorising
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Hundreds of thousands of people are are expected to attend an open-air mass today when Pope John Paul II visits the marian shrine in Loreto, about 125 miles northeast of Rome.
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Pope John Paul II yesterday honored two figures linked to controversy, beatifying a German mystic whose violent visions of Christ's suffering helped inspire Mel Gibson's movie ''The Passion of the Christ,&quot; and an Austrian emperor whose troops used poison gas. Before 30,000 people, including royalty and government representatives from Latin America and Europe, the pontiff also beatified an Italian nun ...
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Pope Benedict XVI set off Saturday for a six-day homecoming pilgrimage to southern Germany that will include a visit to the town where he was born.
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Pope John Paul beatified the last ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and four European nuns and clerics Sunday in an open-air ceremony at St.
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Pope Benedict XVI pressed ahead with his appeals for a unified church Thursday as he a celebrated a Mass in St. Peter&#039;s Basilica attended by a delegation of Orthodox Christians.