Pope Makes Appeal to Brazil's Youth
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Listen by Julie McCarthy
Morning Edition, May 11, 2007 ยท Brazil is about to get its first native-born saint. Pope Benedict XVI will canonize 18th-century Franciscan monk Antonio de Sant'Anna Galvao at an open-air Mass.
It's the third day of the pontiff's five-day visit to Brazil.
Thursday night, he told tens of thousands of young Catholics who packed a soccer stadium in Sao Paulo to resist ambition for wealth and power and what he called other "snares of evil."
The issue of abortion has been a consistent theme in this papal visit, and the leader of the Roman Catholic Church urged young people to promote life from "its beginning to natural end."
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