Late pope considered resigning
AFP, February, 2006
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ROME (AFP) — The late Pope John Paul II, plagued by ill-health in his final years, had considered resigning but dismissed the idea because it would have set a "dangerous precedent," his private secretary is quoted as saying in a new book.
According to the book by Spanish Cardinal Julian Herranz, a Vatican expert in ecclesiastical law, the late pontiff asked him for advice about stepping down.
Herranz, head of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts, outlined the procedure to the pope's then-private secretary Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz at John Paul II's request.
He quotes Dziwisz as saying that the pope was not personally attached to the high office but was simply "obeying the will of God."
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