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VATICAN CITY – A bit of Bavaria, including German beer and pretzels, came to the Vatican to help celebrate retired Pope Benedict XVI's 90th birthday.

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MUNICH - A German Catholic Church leader condemned an arson attack that destroyed a reception centre for asylum seekers.

]]> cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) International Mon, 20 Jul 2015 13:00:00 -0400 Was Pope Benedict XVI right about Islam? /faith/item/18788-was-pope-benedict-xvi-right-about-islam /faith/item/18788-was-pope-benedict-xvi-right-about-islam

On Sept. 12 eight years ago, Pope Benedict XVI delivered a lecture at the University of Regensburg in Bavaria in which he seemed to diagnose Islam as a religion inherently flawed by fanaticism.

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