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(7,981 posts) Tue Feb 12, 2013, 10:07 AM Feb 2013

Vatican acknowledges that pope has had pacemaker [View all]

Source: Associated Press

The Vatican is acknowledging for the first time that Pope Benedict XVI has had a pacemaker for years and that its battery was replaced a few months ago in secret.

Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi said Benedict had the pacemaker installed "a long time" before he became pope in 2005. He called the latest medical procedure "routine."

It was the first time the Vatican has mentioned a papal pacemaker.

Read more: http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/viewart/20130212/NEWS03/130212007/Vatican-acknowledges-pope-has-had-pacemaker

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Vatican acknowledges that pope has had pacemaker [View all] SecularMotion Feb 2013 OP

The guy's 85. No one is stunned that his ticker needs a little extra juice. TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #1

Because Medical science conflicts with God's will? bucolic_frolic Feb 2013 #2

I agree. I'm sorta still Catholic, myself, and while I don't exactly love this guy, TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #4

Catholic hospitals are among the best in the world and the Vatican embraces science. onehandle Feb 2013 #5

Yet condoms are worse than aids... AtheistCrusader Feb 2013 #8

Yep. They do have unfortunate rules. nt onehandle Feb 2013 #9

Being old doesn't make someone useless either lunatica Feb 2013 #7

Aside - and it's a big aside - from the whole uterus problem... Posteritatis Feb 2013 #10

Wow, he and Dick Cheney always seemed to lack a heart. tavalon Feb 2013 #3

Is "pacemaker" Latin for beac Feb 2013 #6