Joyful crowds of 5000 faithful greeted Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday who celebrated two hundred years since the birth of Leo XIII. He was visiting the late Pope's native town of Carpineto Romano near Rome. Pope Benedict celebrated Mass in honour of Pope Pecci, whom he called "a man of great faith and deep devotion." "In an era of bitter anti-clericalism and heated protests against the Pope," Benedict XVI said, "Pope Leo XIII was able to guide and support Catholics on a way of constructive involvement, rich in content, firm in principles and capable of openness." Leo was a very old Pope, he said, but also wise and farsighted, who introduced the Church to the twentieth century, rejuvenating her with the r ...
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