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Pontiff Francis on Wednesday (local time) asked to pray for "very sick" 95-year-old former Pope Benedict, reported CNN."I want to ask you all for a special prayer for Pope Emeritus Benedict who sustains the Church in his silence. He is very sick," Pope Francis said during his general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday."We ask the Lord to console and sustain him in this witness of love for the Church to the very end," added Pope Francis.In 2013, Pope Benedict XVI shocked the world by making the almost unprecedented decision to resign from his position, citing "advanced age."Benedict's announcement marked the first time a pope had stepped down in nearly 600 years, reported CNN.The last pope to resign before his death was Gregory XII, who in 1415 quit ending a civil war within the Catholic Church in which more than one man claimed to be pope.In 2020, the Vatican said Benedict had suffered from a "painful but not serious condition," following reports in German media that he was ill, reported CNN.Two years earlier, in a rare public letter published in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Benedict wrote that "in the slow waning of my physical forces, inwardly I am on a pilgrimage toward Home."Benedict's legacy has been clouded by recent scrutiny of his time as Archbishop of Munich and Freising, between 1977 and 1982, after a Church-commissioned report into abuse by Catholic clergy, there was published in January, reported CNN.The report found that he had been informed of four cases of sexual abuse involving minors - including two during his time in Munich - but failed to act and that he had attended a meeting about an abusive priest.Benedict later pushed back against those allegations, admitting he had attended the meeting but denying he intentionally concealed his presence.( With inputs from ANI )Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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