Prayers Needed for Retired Pope Benedict XVI

POPE FRANCIS SAYS RETIRED POPE BENEDICT IS "VERY SICK"
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service

Wednesday, December 28, 2022
VATICAN CITY -- Saying that retired Pope Benedict XVI was "very sick," Pope Francis asked people to offer special prayers for him.

"I would like to ask all of you for a special prayer for emeritus Pope Benedict," Pope Francis said at the end of his weekly general audience on Dec. 28.

The 95-year-old retired pope "is sustaining the church in silence," Pope Francis said. "Remember him. He is very sick."
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"Ask the Lord to console him and sustain him in his witness of love for the church until the very end," Pope Francis said.

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