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Benedict XVI: looking forward to next life
October 20, 2021
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CWN Editor's Note: In a letter to a German priest, Pope-emeritus Benedict XVI discloses that he is looking forward to rejoining old friends who are deceased. Acknowledging the death of an old friend, Father Gerhard Winkler, the retired Pontiff wrote: “Now he has reached the afterlife, where many friends certainly await him. I hope I can join them soon.”
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