Pope Francis said today that former pontiff Benedict XVI, 95, whose health has steadily been deteriorating, is \u201cvery ill\u201d and called on the faithful to pray for him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Benedict, who in 2013 became the first pontiff to resign in six centuries, has almost entirely withdrawn from public view… Pope Francis said today that former pontiff Benedict XVI, 95, whose health has steadily been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/24252-pope-says-ex-pontiff-benedict-very-ill-asks-for-prayers.jpg",1000,666,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/24252-pope-says-ex-pontiff-benedict-very-ill-asks-for-prayers-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/24252-pope-says-ex-pontiff-benedict-very-ill-asks-for-prayers-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/24252-pope-says-ex-pontiff-benedict-very-ill-asks-for-prayers-768x511.jpg",640,426,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/24252-pope-says-ex-pontiff-benedict-very-ill-asks-for-prayers.jpg",640,426,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/24252-pope-says-ex-pontiff-benedict-very-ill-asks-for-prayers.jpg",1000,666,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/24252-pope-says-ex-pontiff-benedict-very-ill-asks-for-prayers.jpg",1000,666,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/24252-pope-says-ex-pontiff-benedict-very-ill-asks-for-prayers.jpg",1000,666,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/24252-pope-says-ex-pontiff-benedict-very-ill-asks-for-prayers-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/24252-pope-says-ex-pontiff-benedict-very-ill-asks-for-prayers-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Health<\/a>","tag_info":"Health","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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