On Saturday, at an outdoor Mass in France attended by 250,000 people, Pope Benedict XVI condemned the world's love of power, possessions and money as a modern-day plague, comparing it to "paganism."
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More than eight of out of ten Catholics are satisfied with the leadership of Pope Benedict XVI, according to a poll of Catholic adults in the United States. More than seven out of ten are equally satisfied with the leadership of the U.S. bishops, a14-point jump, from 58 to 72 percent, since 2004.
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Pope Benedict XVI has called for peace in the world during his New Year's Mass in Saint Peter's Cathedral. Since 1967, New Year's Day has been World Peace Day in the Roman Catholic Church.
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Pope Benedict XVI Celebrates Midnight Mass in Vatican, Pilgrims Mark The Most Peaceful Christmas in Bethlehem In Years.
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Pope Benedict XVI in the first meeting ever between a pope and reigning Saudi king lauded the contributions of Christians in Saudi Arabia - a country that embraces a strict version of Islam.
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Pope's bodyguards at the Vatican have overpowered a man who jumped a road barrier and tried to get into Pope Benedict XVI's popemobile, Wednesday.
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For the second year, Pope Benedict led the traditional Way of the Cross procession in Rome's ancient Coliseum. Thousands took part in the solemn ceremony. For VOA, Sabina Castelfranco reports from Rome.
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Pope Benedict has called for an end to conflicts on the African continent, and has urged wealthy nations to accelerate debt cancellation to the world's poorest countries.
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Thousands of families were in Saint Peter's Square Saturday to receive the pope's blessing on the feast day of the Epiphany. At a morning mass the pope said that religious leaders must stress the spiritual aspect of the globalization debate. Sabina Castelfranco reports from Rome.
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Pope Benedict XVI, in a parting message of goodwill to Muslims at the end of his first papal trip to a predominantly Muslim nation, said Friday that the Vatican wishes to "impose nothing on anyone."
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On a traffic-choked boulevard in Ankara, in central Anatolia, the bleeping of car horns and the rattle of buses mix with the muezzin's airy call to evening prayer. Is this the sound of a new Europe? Perhaps. But for Pope Benedict XVI, who arrives in the city today for his first visit to a Muslim-majority country, that's a problem.
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