70,000 flock to Pope’s Mass in his homeland
In the famed German pilgrimage centre of Altoetting, he listened to a brief prayer for peace tied to the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks.
The third day of the pontiff’s trip took the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger out of the big-city environment of Munich, where he once served as archbishop, and into the Bavarian heartland of small towns and roadside shrines where he was born and grew up.
