POPE-ENCYCLICAL

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Cardinal Ratzinger, one of the highest authority of Vatican, blesses the coffin of eldest Austrian Cardinal Dr Franz Koenig durin...

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PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SIPA PRESS ROME: An orthodox ceremony at the St Paul Cathedral- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger 00417911

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger celebrates a mass in Rome, 22 June 2000. (ELECTRONIC IMAGE)

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PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SIPA PRESS ROME: CARDINAL JOSEPH RATZINGER 00397784

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP German cardinal Joseph Ratzinger presents the latest encyclical "Fides et Ratio" of Pope John Paul II during a press conference...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP PHOTO German cardinal Joseph Ratzinger presents the latest encyclical "Fides et Ratio" of Pope John Paul II during a press confe...