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Pope Tweaks His Image on Six-Day Trip to U.S.

Pope Benedict XVI ended his six-day trip to the United States with a mass for nearly 60,000 people Sunday at Yankee Stadium in New York. When the pope arrived last week, most American Catholics knew little about him. But the 81-year-old pontiff seems to have changed his image and America's vision of the Roman Catholic Church.

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