VATICAN CITY: Former pope Benedict XVI is "lucid and alert" and his condition remains serious but stable, the Vatican said on Thursday, the day after revealing the 95-year-old's health had deteriorated.
Benedict, who in 2013 became the first pope since the Middle Ages to resign as head of the worldwide Catholic Church, has been in fragile health for many years and uses a wheelchair.
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