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BXVI in sharp decline?

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The pope emeritus appears to be suffering from a rapidly progressing disease that is life-threatening.

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Stephen P. White

» The Legal Making of Orphans

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Randall Smith

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» Confirmed: Pope marginalizes Cardinal Burke

» Pope has acute bronchitis

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» St. John Henry Newman and ‘The Infidelity of the Future’

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