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Papal message for Lent to focus on children

Pope John Paul’s Lenten Message for 2004 will be entitled, “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me,” the Holy See’s Press Office announced today.

The document will be presented in the Holy See Press Office at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow by Archbishop Paul Josef Cordes, President of the Pontifical Council “Cor Unum.”

Joining him will be Msgr. Karel Kasteel, Council Secretary, and Fr. Angelo D’Agostino, S.J., founder and medical director of “Nyumbani,” The Children of God Relief Institute of Nairobi, Kenya.

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