International: Birthplace has Mixed Welcome for Pope

Birmingham Post › September 11, 2006

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German-born Pope Benedict XVI began an emotional, six-day homecoming to his birthplace and the city where he served as a priest and bishop over the weekend

But experts said the ceremony and pride of the visit, to include Mass for an expected 250,000 people in Munich yesterday, would not erase the fact that many people have distinctly mixed feelings about Benedict in his native country.

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International: Birthplace has Mixed Welcome for Pope

Many people - especially in Bavaria, the southern region that remains a Catholic strongho...

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