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Youths turn backs to prelate and wave rainbow flags in Vatican basilicaROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - Over two hundred altar servers turned their backs on German Cdl. Rainer Maria Woelki in a mass protest at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls last Monday. As the cardinal-archbishop of Cologne began his homily to nearly 2,000 acolytes from Germany, small groups of servers abruptly stood and faced the cathedral's main entrance to the west, rudely interrupting the preacher. Pilgrims ProtestWoelki was presiding at the opening Mass for the acolytes, who are on pilgrimage to Rome and Assisi. The pilgrimage includes evening prayer...