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Francis Is in the Hospital. What Happens When a Pope Dies?
By Elisabetta Povoledo and Jason Horowitz Reporting from Rome and Vatican City The Catholic world is ... placed on a raised pedestal. When John Paul II died in 2005, his body was first brought ...
Faithful gather by John Paul II statue at Gemelli hospital to pray for Pope Francis’s health
A group of faithful gathered under the statue of John Paul II at Gemelli hospital on Sunday afternoon to pray for Pope ...
Pope thanks volunteers for ‘miracle of tenderness’ as another Holy Year event passes without him
For the fourth Sunday in a row, the pope will not appear for his weekly noon blessing, though the Vatican planned to ...