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Listening to the coverage of Pope John Paul II’s deteriorating condition today, I thought one persistently used phrase felt off: "The pope is clinging to life." Every time I heard a broadcaster say this, I thought, it

Thanks Ernesto.
What a great tribute of a great man. The Pope’s death seems to be providing a kind of universal (or catholic) catharsis at an important moment in history. But he always seemed to know just how and when to interface with history.