Lukewarm reaction as Pope goes home

German-born Pope Benedict XVI begins an emotional, six-day homecoming to his birthplace and the city where he served as a priest and bishop today.

But the ceremony and pride of the visit, to include Mass for an expected 250,000 people in Munich tomorrow, will not erase the fact that many people have distinctly mixed feelings about Benedict in his native country – the land of the Protestant Reformation now turned largely secular, and home to a shrinking, and noticeably liberal, Catholic Church.