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...Sometimes I'm not poetic enough to describe what it's like to be in the presence of the Holy Father. It is a moving experience.' PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, before meeting Pope Benedict XVI for the first time...
...first glance, President Bush and Pope Benedict XVI offer a portrait in contrast: the swagger of a trust-my-gut Texan and the shyness of a cerebral theologian. But behind the photo-op set at Saturday's first-ever Bush-Benedict meeting were two men with some key traits in common. Both, of course, wield their words and policy with planetary reach thanks to the unique offices they hold. But there are also some notable parallels in the way they have come to exercise their respective global roles. More than six years into Bush's Presidency and two years into...
...Meant to Say..." How to Lobby the Pope No Love Affair for the Pope in Brazil Benedict and Brazil's Catholic Leftists Pope Rejects Pro-Choice Politicians Behind Brazil's Catholic Resurgence Vatican Fires Back at Critics A Step Backward for Pope Benedict? Special TIME 100: Pope Benedict XVI Photoessay Habemus Papam Though the agenda at their Vatican meeting - from Iraq to debt relief to abortion - featured points that both converge and diverge, the 35 minutes behind closed doors, which Bush called "a moving experience," was above all a meeting of two men of Christian devotion, says a Catholic Church...
...BRAZIL $0.20 Cost of a month's supply of birth-control pills, under a proposed subsidy on the contraceptive 150,000 Estimated number of Brazilians who attended an open-air mass with Pope Benedict XVI during his May visit to the world's largest Catholic country; the Pontiff has condemned abortion and contraception...
Estimated number of people who attended Pope Benedict XVI's May 13 Mass in Aparecida, north of São Paulo, during which he condemned abortion and contraception. Brazil, the world's largest Catholic country, recorded some 125 million followers...