Pope Benedict XVI is set to wrap up his six-day trip to the United States with a visit to Ground Zero and a baseball stadium in New York on Sunday.
The Pope will tour the site of the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center with survivors and relatives of the 2,749 people who died.
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The Pope will celebrate Mass at the Yankees stadium before flying home.
It will be the conclusion to what observers say has been a successful trip.
His visit has dominated the American media, and demand for the 55,000 tickets for Sunday's Mass has far outstripped supply, reports the BBC's David Willey in New York.
Candour
At the crater-like site of Ground Zero, construction work will pause as Pope Benedict meets 24 people with ties to the tragedy - survivors, relatives and rescue workers.
He will pray for peace for "our violent world", and request "eternal light and peace" for those who died, not only in New York but at the Pentagon in Washington DC and in a Pennsylvania field.
Later, he will hold the second huge open-air Mass of his visit at the stadium, following one at the Nationals stadium in Washington DC on Thursday.
In a personal address on Saturday, Pope Benedict told youths at a New York rally about growing up under the "monster" of Nazism.
With a candour that correspondents say has been a hallmark of this visit, he spoke publicly for the first time about being forced to join the Hitler Youth and being conscripted into the Nazi army.
The Pope has also repeatedly condemned paedophile Catholic priests. More than 4,000 US Catholic clergy have been accused of sexually abusing minors since 1950.
The Church has paid out more than $2bn (Ј1bn) in compensation and legal fees, most of it since the scandal erupted in 2002.
(BBC)
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