Pope Celebrates Mass Near Hilltop Shrine
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Pope John Paul II traveled to a hilltop shrine near the Adriatic Sea Sunday to celebrate an open-air Mass attended by tens of thousands of pilgrims.
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LORETO, Italy: Pope John Paul II yesterday beatified three members of an international lay Catholic movement at an huge open-air mass near the central Italian town of Loreto.
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Waving from his white popemobile, Pope John Paul II blessed shoppers and tourists at the foot of the Spanish Steps on Wednesday as he began his busy holiday schedule with a traditional visit to the popular square in the heart of historic Rome.
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Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday encouraged Christians and Muslims in Iraq to continue their centuries-old brotherly ties as he prayed for peace and harmony in the violence-wracked country.
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Pope John Paul II marked the 26th anniversary of his papacy, feted Friday evening by a military chorus and orchestra from Russia &#151; a country the globe-trotting pope has been unable to visit.
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Christians around the world celebrated Christmas Saturday with Pope John Paul II leading prayers for peace and a more tranquil future, as pilgrims flocked to Bethlehem, and Iraqis
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Pope Benedict XVI has accepted an invitation from Austria's president to visit a famous shrine to the Virgin Mary next year, the Vatican said Thursday.
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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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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 huge crowd attended a mass  with Pope Benedict in Poland on Sunday as he prepared to visit  the Auschwitz death camp to pray as leader of the world&#039;s Roman  Catholics and a &quot;son of Germany.&quot;
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Pope Benedict XVI celebrated a giant mass Sunday at Loreto -- home to one of Italy&#39;s most cherished Christian shrines -- by appealing to young people to eschew pride, violence and consumerism.
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Pope John Paul II ushered in Christmas on Friday celebrating midnight Mass at St. Peter&#39;s Basilica, where worshipers prayed for world leaders to strive for peace and for
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Just off a busy main street in central  Istanbul stands a towering statue of Pope Benedict, with a  plaque hailing him as "the benefactor of all people, regardless  of nationality or religion."
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Pope John Paul II ushered in the Christmas holiday, lighting a candle for peace in his window Friday before celebrating midnight Mass in a new test of the 84-year-old pontiff's frail health.
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Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday praised an Italian nun for pardoning her killers as she lay dying from an attack that was may have been linked to Muslim anger over his remarks about Islam and violence.
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Pope John Paul II ushered in the Christmas holiday today, lighting a candle for peace in his window before celebrating midnight Mass in a new test of the 84-year-old pontiffâs frail health.
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Pope John Paul has celebrated Christmas midnight mass in St Peter&#39;s Basilica in Vatican City, saying the world needs the message of Jesus more than ever.