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Paddy Agnew: What happened at Pope Leo XIV’s audience with the media

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Four days after his momentous election, Pope Leo XIV yesterday met about 4,000 reporters, cameramen and technicians from the accredited media organisations which have been covering the last 10 weeks of the illness and funeral of the late Pope Francis, as well as the election of Leo XIV himself.




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