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PHILADELPHIA -- For six days in September 2015, Pope Francis made a historic visit to the United States, visiting some of the ...

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PHILADELPHIA -- For six days in September 2015, Pope Francis made a historic visit to the United States, visiting some of the country's biggest cities and speaking to massive crowds of the ...