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VATICAN CITY, April 19: Cardinals on Tuesday elected
Germany's Joseph Ratzinger new leader of the world's 1.1 billion Roman
Catholics, succeeding Pope John Paul II. Ratzinger, 78, the Church's 265th
pontiff, will take the name of Benedict XVI.. POPE JOHN PAUL ll, 84 Died April 2, 2005 Karol Jozef Wojtyla Jr. was born on May 18, 1920, in Wadowice, Poland, 30 miles outside Krakow and died April 2, 2005 |
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