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ROME, ITALY - 24 SEPTEMBER 2014: Maria Mocnik (78) prepares a parchment for a client that will receive a papal blessing at her store in Rome, Italy, on September 24th 2014.

The Vatican has announced that souvenir shops in Rome will no longer be allowed to sell plaques and parchments with papal blessings. Bishop Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, informed the shopkeepers in April that beginning on January 1, 2015, the papal blessings will only be available through at the Office of Papal Charities. All profits from the sale of these documents will go to the papal charities.

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ROME, ITALY - 24 SEPTEMBER 2014: Maria Mocnik (78) prepares a parchment for a client that will receive a papal blessing at her store in Rome, Italy, on September 24th 2014.<br /> <br /> The Vatican has announced that souvenir shops in Rome will no longer be allowed to sell plaques and parchments with papal blessings. Bishop Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, informed the shopkeepers in April that beginning on January 1, 2015, the papal blessings will only be available through at the Office of Papal Charities. All profits from the sale of these documents will go to the papal charities.