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Posted on 26/01/06

An unexpected letter of love from the Pope to his church

Pope Benedict XVI issued his first encyclical to the world's one billion Roman Catholics yesterday, a sometimes poetically steamy discourse on erotic love that left some scholars puzzled and others applauding the lyricism of a celibate 79-year-old.

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