Pope winds up Spain trip defending family


  • World
  • Sunday, 09 Jul 2006

VALENCIA, Spain (Reuters) - Pope Benedict wound up a quick trip to Valencia on Sunday, implicitly condemning some key social legislation of Spain's Socialist government and stressing that marriage had to be heterosexual and for life. 

At the last major event of his 26-hour visit, the German Pope presided at a mass for more than a million people on the grounds of a sprawling futuristic arts and science complex in Spain's third largest city. 

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