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Before joining hundreds of people for lunch, Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass for the Jubilee of the Poor and prayed that all Christians would share "the love of God, which welcomes, binds up wounds, forgives,
Walking up on that stage felt like history. It really did,” said Elise Wing, a high school senior from Waterloo, Iowa, one of the teens who asked Pope Leo a question.
Leo paid tribute to the country's tiny Catholic community and also visited a group of nuns, the Little Sisters of the Poor, who run a nursing home in Istanbul.