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: 23/02/12
A daily guide to what’s happening in the Catholic Church
By Luke Coppen on Thursday, 23 February 2012
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Cardinal Edwin O'Brien, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan, Catholic News Agency, Christopher Manion, general audience, Mgr Keith Newton, Personal Ordinariate of Walsingham, Peter Berger, Santa SabinaShare
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