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POPE AND SECRETARY --- Pope John Paul II is aided down the stairs of an airplane by his personal secretary, then-Bishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, after arriving in Rome after a trip to India and Georgia in this Nov. 9, 1999, file photo. In a new book, Cardinal Dziwisz says that Pope John Paul II seriously considered resigning in 2000 because of his poor health and set up a "specific procedure" for papal resignation. He says the late pope eventually decided that it was God's will that he remain in office despite his illness.
photo by Paolo Cocco, Reuters
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