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The excitement and nervousness kept building for Dr. Brandon and Dr. Arielle Brown as they heard the overflowing crowd at the Vatican roar, signaling that Pope Leo XIV was beginning his ride in the popemobile through St. Peter’s Square. Three hours earlier, the couple from SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral Parish in Indianapolis had arrived in the plaza in front of St. Peter’s Basilica with one great hope—to have their 6-week-old baby Laurence receive a blessing from the new pope during his first general audience on May 21.
 

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