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Pope Calls for Holding Line on Divorce

Benedict, in France, urges bishops to ignore trends

By Drew Nelles,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 14, 2008 5:27 PM CDT

(Newser) – Pope Benedict XVI urged bishops to uphold the Catholic tradition of marriage today during a 150,000-strong mass in Lourdes, the French town where apparitions of Madonna reportedly appeared in 1858, AFP reports. Benedict pledged not to allow divorced Catholics into the church and told...   Read full story »

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