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...RETIRED. Joaquín Navarro-Valls, 69, as the Pope's chief spokesman, after more than 20 years as the unflappable public face of the Vatican; in Vatican City. A confidant of John Paul II, the Spanish-born former journalist-the first non-cleric to take the job-modernized the Vatican's information service and helped move the Holy See into the Internet...
...week, few insiders consider it likely. "If John Paul was going to resign, it would have already happened," says longtime Rome-based Jesuit priest Keith Pecklers. "He identifies with the mystery of Christ's suffering." Keeping the world updated last week on the Pope's latest health scare was Joaquín Navarro-Valls. A former psychiatrist and journalist, the 68-year-old Spaniard has been the papal spokesman since 1984 and is in constant contact with the Holy Father. Though some veteran Vatican watchers complain that Navarro-Valls spins the world about the Pope's physical condition - he insisted...