INQUIRER.net: Numbers don’t add up for papal Mass crowd count

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Numbers don't add up for papal Mass crowd count Aug 3rd 2013, 01:45 RIO DE JANEIRO — If measured in spirit, there is hardly a soul who would question the success of Pope Francis' Mass on giant Copacabana beach last weekend. The count when it comes to the flesh-and-blood numbers of faithful who actually attended is an entirely different matter.   The Vatican said an historic 3.7 million people were at the Sunday event, an eye-popping number that would have made it the second largest papal Mass ever. But number crunchers were splashing cold water on those jubilant estimates Friday, saying the real figure was not even half as big.   The problem was, the count released by Vatican and Brazilian officials was a guesstimate that stat... Keep on reading: Numbers don’t add up for papal Mass crowd count Media files: pope-francis.jpg (image/jpeg)

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