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A Duluth priest says Pope Francis signed a baseball for him during a recent trip to Rome.
 

 that he met with the pope last week, taking along a baseball for Francis to sign. Kunst says the meeting lasted a minute and that he was on "cloud nine."
 

Kunst says he asked the pope to sign a baseball because of the "rarity and uncommon nature of it," and that it could speak to people who aren't interested in matters of faith. The baseball that
Kunst says the pope autographed has "Francis" scrawled on it.

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The Rev. Richard Kunst says he asked the pope to sign a baseball in part because it could speak to people who aren't interested in matters of faith.

Duluth priest says Pope Francis signed baseball for him

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