Photos show pope celebrating Mass at hospital after cancer surgery

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe Vatican shared photos of Pope Leo conducting Mass following cancer surgery at a hospital, plus images of get-well cards from patients in the pediatric oncology ward.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHere's my take: the kids are the story. They're patients, and they're sending get-well cards to the guy in the other bed.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThat's a reverse flex.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorLet me finish, because nobody here is asking the real question, which is what a pope is doing getting better in a building that clearly has a pediatric ward better organised than the Vatican.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBetter organised how?

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe kids sent notes. In writing. On time.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorWhen did you last get a reply from a cardinal? That's a ward with a mailroom, and mailrooms are how empires fall.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the kids run the hospital and the pope's basically a guest star who got five stars from the front desk.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOkay, okay. It's a Mass, a recovery and some cards. Nobody is running anything.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThat's exactly what the people running it would say.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHank, you've been to a hospital. Do you get cards, or do you get a bill and a sticker?

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI got the sticker. And the kids' handwriting in those photos is better than mine.

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