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Some highlights from what I’ve seen:<\/p>\n

12 young people lunch with the Pope.<\/a> They were given vegetarian omelets. He was given trout. He sent the trout back and insisted on having what the young people were eating.<\/p>\n

Jamie from Ad Limina continues with his engaging accounts of adventures in Cologne:<\/a> trying to find the tombs of Duns Scotus and Albertus Magnus, and the session with the Pope and the seminarians (he is neither, but managed to get it, anyway).<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Jeff Geerling was also at the seminarian’s gathering, briefly reports, and has photos.<\/a><\/p>\n

Brandon Evans posts live from Marienfeld<\/a> and has photos as well.<\/p>\n

Father Dowd’s got brief posts and audioblogs<\/a>, including the most recent one, giving a brief account of the Stations last night.<\/p>\n

Flying the flag: Ann Rogers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had been the only reporter I’d seen to mention that American pilgrims had been warned to be low-key about flying the American flag. Today, she reports that the Pittsburgh crew has defied the warning:<\/a><\/p>\n

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But all week they had seen thousands of people from lands as diverse as Tahiti and Sweden proudly displaying their national colors. They had spotted a few American groups also flying large flags, with no apparent ill effects. <\/p>\n

In a gift shop that carried flags from many nations, chaperone Zack Rosser, 22, purchased a large flag on a long pole to carry before them. And Lauren Witter, 17, of Dormont, bought an even larger flag that she literally wrapped herself in.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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