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10-05-07, 22:17
Abortion doesn't come up in pope's meeting with Brazilian leader
• Thousands head to soccer stadium to see pope at youth rally
• Vatican struggles to clarify pope's comments on abortion-rights politicians
• Benedict XVI's five-day Brazil trip is his first pilgrimage to Latin America as pope
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SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- Vatican officials struggled Thursday to clarify Pope Benedict XVI's position on whether Catholic politicians who legalize abortion automatically excommunicate themselves from the church, issuing an edited transcript apparently aimed at defusing a controversy that made headlines across Latin America.
While Benedict met privately with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and thousands of Catholics streamed toward a soccer stadium for the pontiff's evening youth rally, the Vatican released a new transcript that seemed to roll back comments the pope made to reporters while flying to Brazil.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/05/10/pope.brazil.ap/index.html
• Thousands head to soccer stadium to see pope at youth rally
• Vatican struggles to clarify pope's comments on abortion-rights politicians
• Benedict XVI's five-day Brazil trip is his first pilgrimage to Latin America as pope
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SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- Vatican officials struggled Thursday to clarify Pope Benedict XVI's position on whether Catholic politicians who legalize abortion automatically excommunicate themselves from the church, issuing an edited transcript apparently aimed at defusing a controversy that made headlines across Latin America.
While Benedict met privately with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and thousands of Catholics streamed toward a soccer stadium for the pontiff's evening youth rally, the Vatican released a new transcript that seemed to roll back comments the pope made to reporters while flying to Brazil.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/05/10/pope.brazil.ap/index.html