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What happens when pandemic locks down a globe-trotting pope?

by Associated Press
| August 31, 2020 12:03 AM

ROME (AP) — On the March day that Italy recorded its single biggest jump in coronavirus fatalities, Pope Francis emerged from lockdown to offer an extraordinary prayer and plea to his flock to reassess their priorities, arguing the virus had proved they needed one another.

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