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Pope's Turkey trip touched all faith, diplomatic bases: Conciliatory mood a fitting ending to landmark visit

Defying worried predictions, Pope Benedict XVI ended a momentous four-day trip to Turkey on a high note early this month, celebrating mass for the country’s small Roman Catholic community and basking in widespread media praise of his landmark visit to a mosque.

The conciliatory mood provided a fitting end to a papal trip that many initially feared would stoke tensions between the Muslim world and the West.