Benedict XVI admirers continue to flock to the Vatican to pay their respects | app

VATICAN CITY (AP) — For a second day, lines of people wanting to honor Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI The Catholic church service snaked around St. Peter’s Square on Tuesday to see the body of the late retired pontiff.

Benedict died Saturday at age 95 after 10 years of retirement from the papacy and after increasingly fragile health. His body rests as it is in Saint Peter’s Basilica, where thousands of faithful and curious people have come to see him.

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