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AT 75TH BIRTHDAY --- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger celebrates Mass at Rome's Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere April 20, 2002, marking his 75th birthday and 25th anniversary as a bishop. The cardinal, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, submitted his resignation to Pope John Paul II on his April 16 birthday, as required by canon law; the pope did not accept the resignation.

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