VATICAN POPE LENT
German Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes, left, and former European Parliament president Hans-Gert Poettering meet journalists to present Pope Benedict XVI's Lenten message, at the Vatican, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. The Pontiff blamed ''indifference'' as the fundamental cause of hundreds of millions of deaths in the world from lack of food, water and medicine. Benedict chose justice and injustice the theme of his Lenten message released by the Vatican on Thursday in several languages. Lent, a period of reflection and penitence in the Roman Catholic church, begins this year on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 17. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)
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