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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.

Originally Posted by INVICTUS:

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.

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