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'Constant Drumbeat' Sped the Pope's Exit

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'Constant Drumbeat' Sped the Pope's Exit

Here's one guy you didn't expect to see taking batting practice today: Pope John Paul II. This video is making the rounds of John Paul II (not the guy who retired on Monday, the one before him) in a batting cage during a 1987 trip around California

BENEDICT XVI's resignation might be the most unexpected papal decision since the convening of the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s — which came about, Pope John XXIII said, not after long deliberation, but “like the flower of an unexpected

ROME — Though it may have come as a shock Monday to the world's one billion-plus Catholics, Pope Benedict XVI's plan to retire on Feb. 28 appears to have been in the works for some time, and was known to a handful of close advisers.

What do they call the pope when he resigns? Does he become Pope Emeritus, or does he revert back to being a Cardinal. And if he does revert back to being Cardinal, does he get to vote on his successor? On the day he

Zubin Mehta and the Orchestra of Maggio Musicale performed Monday February 4th in the Vatican City for His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI and for the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano. Today, Zubin issued

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