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ABOUT a month ago, on July 21, 2024, Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio "Chito" Tagle celebrated the closing Holy Mass of the United States National Eucharistic Congress in a football stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, together with 60,000 (more or less) Catholics, including some 1,600 seminarians, priests, bishops and fellow cardinals. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) organized the five-day (July 17-21, 2024) event to "rekindle devotion to the sacrament of the Eucharist." Pope Francis sent him to this rare gathering (reportedly only the tenth since 1895) as his representative.
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