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...“Government wasn’t his strong point,” observed Cardinal George Pell, Australia’s most senior Catholic, on the eve of Benedict’s abdication....
...In his book How Not To Be A Football Millionaire, Keith Gillespie, the former Manchester United player once hailed as the new George Best, calculated he had lost at least £7.2m as a player from gambling...
...Benedict is the first pontiff to leave office of his own free will since Celestine V in 1294....
...The past 11 conclaves have lasted no longer than four days, but the 13th century election of Celestine V, aged 84, took more than two years. He spent only five months in office....
...The last Pope to abdicate was Celestine V in 1294 an act for which Dante, the medieval poet, condemned him to the vestibule of hell in the “Inferno” part of his Divine Comedy....
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