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New clue to pope's crowd size: Communion wafers


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At Mass, 550 priests and 250 deacons fanned out to give Communion. Aides held yellow-and-white umbrellas to signal their locations. From the pope's altar near the Art Museum steps to as far east as 17th Street, crowds surged forward to receive the sacrament. A woman near 21st Street shouted to a priest, "Father! My sister is pregnant!"

The priest heard and gave the pregnant woman a wafer, but many others who extended their arms to receive the host left empty-handed.

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