CNN Vatican Correspondent Christopher Lamb is in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires, where roughly 2.5 million people, according to official estimates, gathered for Mass on Monday morning. It's the largest event Pope Leo has held in his papacy thus far that surpasses the numbers that turned out in the same spot for Pope John Paul II in 1982.
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CNN Vatican Correspondent Christopher Lamb is in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires, where roughly 2.5 million people, according to official estimates, gathered for Mass on Monday morning. It’s the largest event Pope Leo has held in his papacy thus far that surpasses the numbers that turned out in the same spot for Pope John Paul II in 1982.
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