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Pope Leo tells 1.2 million crowd in Madrid that God stands with the poor

  • About 1.2 million people packed Madrid’s Cibeles Square for Pope Leo’s outdoor Mass, waving flags, shouting greetings and tossing petals in a festive atmosphere.
  • The pope urged Catholics to help the poor and forsaken, saying God “identifies with” migrants and the marginalized and calling for a more inclusive, humane society.
  • His week-long Spain visit — including meetings with migrants, a youth vigil of roughly 600,000 and stops in Barcelona and the Canary Islands — is his first trip to an EU country outside Italy.
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