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Pope Benedict XVI Goes to Canossa

Well, he tried. The Pope went to Canossa, sort of, not to do penance, but to make a plea for sanity. Somebody had to do it. Usually it’s the bad guy, the villain; the fellow with the blood on his hands who goes to Canossa and eats a little humble pie but that’s not the way they do things in the 21st Century. But Benedict went anyway.


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