Vatican Planning Big Send Off for Pope

First to resign in centuries

Reason Staff | 2.13.2013 10:44 AM

Cardinals around the world began informal contacts to discuss who should next lead the Church through a period of major crisis and the Vatican said it planned a big send-off for Pope Benedict before he becomes the first pontiff in centuries to resign.

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Vatican Planning Big Send Off for Pope

First to resign in centuries

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