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FILE- In this Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013 file photo, Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd from the window of the Pope's summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, the scenic town where he will spend his first post-Vatican days and make his last public blessing as pope. A book of interviews with the Polish Rev. Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki, “Secretary of Two Popes,” released May 2017, has offered some insight into the daily life at the Vatican with John Paul and his German-born successor, Benedict XVI. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
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Faithful gather in Bresso, near Milan, Italy, to follow a Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI in this Sunday, June 3, 2012, file photo. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni/File)
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In this April 16, 2008 file photo Pope Benedict XVI embraces Chicago's Cardinal Francis George after addressing the bishops at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. Cardinal Francis George, a vigorous defender of Roman Catholic orthodoxy who played a key role in the church's response to the clergy sex abuse scandal, has died. He was 78. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Gustavo Garcia Siller, archbishop of San Antonio, USA, leaves the altar after receiving the pallium from Pope Benedict XVI, a woolen shawl symbolizing his bond to the Pope, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
