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Pope in Fatima recalls John Paul shooting
May 12th, 2010 – Forbes
fatima, portugal — pope benedict xvi recalled the assassination attempt on pope john paul ii on wednesday as he traveled to this catholic shrine and prayed before a statue holding the bullet that gravely wounded the late pontiff.
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Benedict asserts church’s own sins pose greatest risk
May 12th, 2010 – Boston
lisbon – in his strongest and most direct condemnation of the sexual abuse crisis that has swept the roman catholic church, pope benedict xvi said yesterday that the ‘sins inside the church” posed the greatest threat to catholicism, adding
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Pope Benedict silences child abuse conspiracy theorists on Portugal visit
May 11th, 2010 – guardian.co.uk
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in his most strongly worded condemnation of the priests involved in paedophile cases, pope benedict said the church’s greatest enemy was “sins from within”, not the campaigners who have exposed its culture of laxity and secrecy -
Pope Benedict places blame for sex scandals on Catholic Church
May 11th, 2010 – Washington Post
lisbon, portugal — pope benedict xvi on tuesday blamed the church’s own sins for the clerical sex-abuse scandal — not a campaign mounted by outsiders — and called for profound purification to end what he called the “greatest persecution
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Pope Benedict blames ‘sin inside the church’ for Vatican woes
May 11th, 2010 – The Christian Science Monitor
pope benedict xvi appeared to distance himself tuesday from vatican efforts to blame the media for the pedophile priest scandal that has engulfed the roman catholic church, telling reporters that the greatest threat to the church
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Moscows Patriarch Kirill honors Pope Benedict XVI with a special concert
www.romereports.com The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill I, organized a concert in honor of Pope Benedict XVI. The concert marked the end of a series of conferences on culture and Russian spirituality that took place at the Vatican. -
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Pope: “The Church, home of the whole human family”
The Church must always and everywhere, be one catholic and universal, “the house where everyone can find themselves. This was Pope Benedicts message today in his homily during Mass for Pentecost, celebrated in the St. Peters Basilica … -
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A woman jumped the barriers in St. Peter’s Basilica and knocked down Pope Benedict XVI as he walked down the main aisle to begin Christmas Eve Mass on Thursday. 2 Americans, Marybeth Burns and Steve Burns, captured that moment on their cameras.