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2010: A Papal Year in Review

Global Catholic News

December 29, 2010

With the calendar year coming to a close, the time has come to remember the voyage of 2010 for the Church. Benedict XVI has faced his share of troubles, but has endured daunting challenges with remarkable resiliency. He enters the new year perhaps all the stronger for his battles. Here's a look back at 2010.

Travels, saints, and blessed

The Pope did not slow down in his journeys, traveling to Malta, an island upon which the Apostle Paul was shipwrecked; Portugal, where the Holy Father celebrated Mass on the anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady, praying for the "triumph of the Immaculate Heart" and inviting the suffering to become "redeemers in the Redeemer"; Cyprus, where the Pope presented a special document ahead of the special synod of bishops on the Middle East; the United Kingdom, where the Pope beatified John Henry Cardinal Newman; and Spain, where the Holy Father himself made pilgrimage in to the "House of St. James" ahead of the nation's 2011 World Youth Day. 

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