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Children cheer at Pope Francis after the celebration of an open-air mass outside the church of Saints Elizabeth and Zachary in Prime Porta, a suburb of Rome, on May 26, 2013. The pope visited a Rome parish for the first time and will offering first communion to 16 local children, choosing a church on the outskirts of the city after his call for clergymen to take God’s message to the “fringes” of society. AFP PHOTO / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE