Retired Pope Benedict lucid, stable but still in serious condition
Pope Francis asked people to keep praying for his predecessor "in these difficult hours."
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Pope Francis asked people to keep praying for his predecessor "in these difficult hours."
Benedict is 95. In 2013, he became the first pontiff to resign in six centuries, and he has withdrawn almost entirely from public view.
Francis uttered his strongest plea yet about the seventh-month-old conflict, which he denounced as an "error and a horror."
