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Pope Benedict XVI strokes a lion cub as he greets circus artists and workers, during an audience he held in the Pope Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, . Benedict clapped and watched amused as circus workers flipped, flopped, juggled and twisted before him in what the Vatican has called a historic audience to make street performers and other itinerant entertainers feel like they belong to the church
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