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VATICAN CITY - Struggling to swallow and breathe, Pope John Paul II mumbled his final words weakly in Polish: "Let me go to the house of the Father." Six hours later, the comatose pontiff died, the Vatican says.
The account of John Paul's final hours appears in a meticulously detailed official report on his last weeks just released by the Vatican in what might be an effort to ward off any doubts about how forthcoming it has been about his illness and April 2 death.See the full content of this document
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Report On John Paul Ii Released
There was much speculation in past decades over how some pontiffs died and what caused their end.
John Paul I's brief tenure of 33 days as pope in 1978 spawned conspiracy theories that he did not die naturally in his...See the full content of this document
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