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Sandro Magister, Settimo Cielo

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

The book, Liberating Freedom: Faith and Politics in the Third Millennium, goes on sale in Italian tomorrow and will be out soon in the U.S. In it, the Pope Emeritus shares his thoughts about human rights and the future of religious liberty.

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