Pope Benedict pays tribute to Catholics persecuted for faith
CP via Yahoo! Canada News - Dec 26 3:47 AMBy Frances D'Emilio
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict on Tuesday paid tribute to Christians who are persecuted for faith, including Catholics who suffer because of their loyalty to the pontiff, in an apparent reference to the underground church in China.
To the Virgin Mary, "we entrust all those who are persecuted and suffer, in various ways, for paying witness to, and being in service to, the Gospel," Benedict told pilgrims as the Church marked the feast day of St. Stephen, a Jewish convert who became the first Christian martyr.
"With special spiritual closeness, I am thinking as well of those Catholics who keep their own loyalty to Peter's Seat without yielding to compromise, sometimes at the price of grave suffering," the Pope said. The mention of St. Peter represents papal authority in Rome.
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