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Ex-Pope Benedict is lucid and alert – Vatican
Aged 95, he remains in a serious but stable condition, a day after Pope Francis said he was very ill. The post Ex-Pope Benedict is lucid and alert – Vatican appeared first on Rich TVX News Network.
Pope Francis urges prayers for ‘very sick’ former pope Benedict
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Pope Francis has urged people to pray for Benedict XVI, saying on December 28, 2022, that the 95-year-old former pontiff is “very sick”. The German pope emeritus was the first pope to apologise for abuse scandals in the church and the first in six centuries to voluntarily step down as the head of the Catholic Church….
Pope Francis says predecessor Benedict is very ill – BBC News
Pope Francis has said former Pope Benedict XVI is very ill and he has asked pilgrims at the Vatican to pray for him. Benedict, 95, became the first leader of the Catholic Church to stand down in 600 years in 2013, citing advanced age. At the end of the Pope’s final audience of the year, he asked people to “pray a special prayer for Pope…