Millions around the world praying for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
The retired pope, who stepped down in 2013, is said to be in very poor health.
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The retired pope, who stepped down in 2013, is said to be in very poor health.
Benedict is 95. In 2013, he became the first pontiff to resign in six centuries, and he has withdrawn almost entirely from public view.
Pope Francis urged the faithful to remember the millions of Ukrainians who were without electricity or heating Sunday because of Russian attacks, as well as the millions more displaced from their homes.
Pope Francis used his Christmas message Sunday to lament the "icy winds of war" buffeting humanity and to make an impassioned plea for an immediate end to the fighting in Ukraine, a 10-month-old conflict he decried as "senseless."
