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The Pope speaks to more than 15.000 at the closing of the Year for Priests

Tags: Priesthood, Benedict XVI, Rome
  About 15,000 priests participated in the Vatican in a special ceremony to end the Year for Priests. The pope has answer questions presented by five of them about priesthood, celibacy, vocations and theology.

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