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Less than an hour before the start of Mass a huge crowd still waits to get into the Francis Fairgrounds along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia on Sunday, Sept. 27. (Rebecca Droke/Post-Gazette)

Less than an hour before the start of Mass a huge crowd still waits to get into the Francis Fairgrounds along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia on Sunday, Sept. 27. (Rebecca Droke/Post-Gazette)

Less than an hour before the start of Mass a huge crowd still waits to get into the Francis Fairgrounds along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia on Sunday, Sept. 27. (Rebecca Droke/Post-Gazette)