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(ANSA) - Rome, February 11 - Italian cardinal Angelo Sodano,
the dean of the College of Cardinals, said Monday that Pope
Benedict XVI's announcement he was stepping down from the helm
of the Catholic Church was a "bolt out of the blue".
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