Did Pope John Paul II have Parkinson’s?

Pope John Paul II experienced tremors and stiffness for years before revealing that he had Parkinson’s disease in 2005.

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Benedict cited his advanced age and deteriorating strength as the impetus for his resignation, explaining that his condition had forced him to “recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me.”

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The first miracle attributed to him was the apparent healing of a French nun, Sister Marie Simon-Pierre. Her recovery from Parkinson’s disease after praying for the late Pope’s “intercession” in 2005 had no medical explanation, the Catholic Church maintains.

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Pope Benedict XVI

It has a court, a police department, and a jail. However, for long term prisoners, like the last person who attempted to assassinate the pope, the Vatican has a treaty with Italy that they will be housed in an Italian prison. There is no death penalty in the Vatican as it is against Church teaching.

Upon a papal death, the ring used to be ceremonially destroyed using a hammer in the presence of other cardinals by the Camerlengo.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Thursday named the Irish-American cardinal Kevin Farrell as the new “camerlengo”, the prelate who runs the Vatican between the death or resignation of a pontiff and the election of a new one.

Sedevacantism is the position held by some people who identify as Catholic that the present occupier of the Holy See is not the pope due to the mainstream church’s espousal of what they see as heresies of modernism and that, for lack of a valid pope, the See has been vacant since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, the …

Papal infallibility is a dogma of the Catholic Church which states that, in virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the pope when appealing to his highest authority is preserved from the possibility of error on doctrine “initially given to the apostolic Church and handed down in Scripture and tradition”.

ROME (Reuters) – After years of speculation that Pope Benedict wears shoes by Prada, the Vatican’s official newspaper denied such talk as “frivolous”. “The pope, in summary, does not wear Prada, but Christ,” it said. …

The mitre (British English) (/ˈmaɪtər/; Greek: μίτρα, “headband” or “turban”) or miter (American English; see spelling differences), is a type of headgear now known as the traditional, ceremonial headdress of bishops and certain abbots in traditional Christianity.