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Benedict targets lapsed Catholics

VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict launched a campaign to bring lapsed believers back to the Catholic fold yesterday.

In a Mass in St Peter's Square, he defined the move as "directed principally to those who, though baptised, have drifted away from the Church and live without reference to Christian life".

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