Pope says Mass for 70,000.(News)

From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: September 12, 2006 | Copyright information

POPE BENEDICT XVI celebrated Mass in front of 70,000 people yesterday in the German pilgrimage centre of Altoetting and listened to a brief prayer for peace tied to the anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.

The Pope, on a sentimental six-day homecoming tour of his native Bavaria, confined his sermon to the Virgin Mary, to whom the Altoetting shrine is devoted.

"This is the mother that generations have come to Altoetting to visit," he said. "To her we entrust our cares, our needs and our troubles." Laywoman Walburga Wieland offered a brief remembrance of the ...

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