New Pope Has Different Style With Media

VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI showed off his language skills in a meeting with journalists Saturday but made clear he was not a carbon copy of his media-minded predecessor, Pope John Paul II.

...the session only lasted about 15 minutes, and Benedict did not take questions or meet with individual reporters...

Before the public session, the pope met privately with about a dozen news executives, mainly Italians but also the head of a Polish Catholic news agency, Vatican officials said.

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