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Claudio Gugerotti (Italy), 69 Claudio Gugerotti is an expert on the Slavic world and consulted Pope Francis on ... for the ...

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A diplomat and polyglot from the Italian city of Verona, Gugerotti is an expert on the Slavic world ... the place of women or remarried divorced people — and passes it along to the pope.