Pope goes home to challenge Godless Germans hooked on having fun

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Pope goes home to challenge Godless Germans hooked on having fun
By Kate Connolly in Berlin
(Filed: 13/08/2005)

As homecomings go, the Pope's first foreign trip since he became leader of the world's one billion Roman Catholics will be bitter sweet.

About 500,000 young people will next week welcome Pope Benedict to the World Youth Day celebrations in Germany, a display of religious faith testifying to his Church's vigour.

But his return to the land of his birth will also be a confrontation between an austere enforcer of doctrinal orthodoxy and a country that embodies the secular, Godless culture he rails against.

According to his spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, the four days the Pope will spend in Germany are a "very strong signal" of his desire for dialogue with young people.

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[DanCa]

1. Dialogue means two way conversation

Somehow I doubt that this Pope will listen to a different point a view.