The Pope was visited by a group of young cancer patients who are being treated at Rome’s Agostino Gemelli hospital
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Morning Catholic must-reads: 21/12/10
A daily guide to what’s happening in the Catholic Church
By Luke Coppen on Tuesday, 21 December 2010
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Apostolic Exhortation, Archbishop Jaime Ortega, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, Basilica of St Francis of Assisi, Carl Olson, Cuba, John Allen, Jonathan Day, Michael Bolton, Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Curia, Verbum DominiShare
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