Pope Celebrates Easter Mass
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VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Easter Sunday Mass on the flower-adorned steps of St. Peter’s Basilica as thousands of pilgrims and tourists jammed St. Peter’s Square to join in the service and later receive his blessing. Choir boys rubbed their eyes as they squinted into a hazy sun. Their voices rang across the square as the head of the Roman Catholic Church led the faithful in the celebration of Christianity’s most important feast day.
