✣ Papal visit draws small crowd
What happened? There was a record low turnout for the closing papal Mass in Georgia.
According to the Associated Press, only a few thousand people attended the Mass in the Meshki stadium, which has a capacity of 25,000. With a Catholic population of only one per cent, half the seats in the arena were left empty.
During his visit, the Pope still made a point of reaching out to the Orthodox in an attempt to heal doctrinal differences that split the Church in the 11th century.
