VATICAN CITY -- A cardinal who stood in for Pope John Paul II in a Holy Week ceremony at the Vatican said the ailing pontiff was "serenely abandoning" himself to God's will.
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re said the 84-year-old pontiff linked his own suffering to that of Jesus Christ. John Paul's words were being seen as poignant by the Roman Catholic faithful because this year is the first in his papacy he has missed services leading up to Easter this Sunday.
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Pope 'abandons self to God's will'
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