US prelates seek to dispel new pontiff's divisive image

VATICAN CITY -- Catholic cardinals from the United States made a concerted effort yesterday to reassure a skeptical American flock that the prelates had made a good choice in electing a controversial conservative, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, as pope. (Full article: 865 words)

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