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Pope Benedict XVI visits Poland

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Pope visits Poland, homeland of John Paul II
Benedict hopes to improve Polish-German and Christian-Jewish relations

Associated Press
Updated: 7:01 a.m. ET May 25, 2006

ROME - Poles gave German-born Pope Benedict XVI an enthusiastic welcome Thursday as he arrived for a four-day visit intended to honor predecessor John Paul II and further German-Polish reconciliation from the wounds of World War II.

President Lech Kaczynski, a military honor guard and a crowd of about 1,000 people greeted Benedict’s plane at Warsaw’s international airport, while more people holding white and yellow Vatican flags waited on the street to watch him pass by on his way into the city.

A choir sang “The Barge,” John Paul’s favorite song — just one sign of how the late pope remains a presence in Poland more than a year after his death.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News

Visit by a German pope raises questions for Poles
By Tom Heneghan
1 hour, 24 minutes ago

OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) - For Poles, John Paul was "the Polish pope" or simply "our pope." They don't seem to have decided yet whether his successor Benedict is "the German pope," a pope who happens to be German or just "the pope."
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posted by Dr. Denice Hanley, DPM, M.Div. @ 10:17 AM