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Himself, he said if he felt his strength and his body wasnt up to speed to comply with the duties that were that are expected of a pontiff, and very heavy duties like traveling around, attending ceremonies, working nonstop. At 85, thats tiring for everybody, for any man his age, let alone a pontiff and the pope and leader of 1 billion catholics around the world, but nobody really believed that would happen or nobody believed that would happen before at least next year, because this, maybe i remind you, is the year of the faith. So that came as a surprise to everybody, as you heard card natural dolan doesnt know about it. Certainly he is not the only one, because the spokesperson for the vatican even said he was shocked. He didnt see it coming, and so didnt his closest aides. As we know, when benedict was named as pope, he was one of the oldest popes to take over that job. George, let me talk to you about the fact that we are hearing all the different reactions coming in now just from H

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