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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Pope Francis celebrated the last Mass of his trip to Brazil on Sunday before an estimated 3 million people gathered on the beach in this city, the national flags of Catholics from around the world hoisted in the air as a chorus of Brazilian priests belted out songs before the multitude. It was a vibrant display of the Vatican's ambition of halting the losses of worshippers to evangelical churches and the rising appeal of secularism.
3 million?
That's what they were saying, I stopped counting at 47 so I don't know.
The BBC's Wyre Davies in Rio says almost every inch of the two-and-a-half mile
long beach was occupied as most of the young people stayed on, pitching tents or
sleeping in the open.
I wonder what it smelled like?
I wonder what it smelled like?
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Victory!!
I wonder what it smelled like?
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Perhaps something like it smells when the Brazilians, in mass, poorly controlled crowds, and sometimes with scanty clothing, celebrate Carnival, their version of Mardi Gras. These sordid and lascivious observances are celebrated in various dominantly Catholic countries in advance of the strictures to be imposed by Lent, the non-Biblical, invented period during which those who have gotten drunk or who have fornicated or otherwise immorally behaved during Carnival or Mardi Gras supposedly transpose themselves into states of abstinence and holiness entirely missing from their pre-Lenten indulgences. Thus is the spectrum of human behavior, with the associated aromas, annually placed on exhibit for the rest of the world to ponder upon.
Gee tender, just like mardi gras and spring break, among other things, right here in the US?