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Was Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Afraid of Dying?

In this exclusive interview with Archbishop Georg Gänswein, Pope Benedict XVI’s personal secretary, EWTN Vatican Bureau Chief, Andreas Thonhauser, sat down with the archbishop for a wide-ranging conversation covering the key moments of Benedict XVI’s papacy from curial reforms, to the “dictatorship of relativism”, abuse cases, the late pontiff’s impressive literary body of work, and what he believes will be Benedict XVI’s legacy.

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