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Pope Benedict hits ‘religious consumerism’

August 22, 2005 - 12:00am

MARIENFELD, Germany (AFP) — Pope Benedict XVI yesterday criticized an "explosion" in religious consumerism and those profiting from it at a Mass attended by at least 800,000 pilgrims celebrating the...

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