Features

Editorial

Security

Letters

Sports

Obituaries

Archives

VATICAN CITY - One of Europe's top cardinals said Thursday that Pope John Paul II was nearing "the last days and months of his life," the first ranking prelate to say the 83-year-old pontiff is dying.

With John Paul visibly weaker in recent weeks, concern over his health has been growing. Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn was the second leading prelate this week to express alarm over the Pope's health. "The entire world is experiencing a Pope who is sick, who is disabled and who is dying - I don't know how near death he is - who is approaching the last days and months of his life," Schoenborn, who is the Archbishop of Vienna, told Austrian State broadcaster ORF.

Schoenborn is considered a possible candidate for the papacy. His spokesman, Erich Leitenberger, later told The Associated Press the comments were "to be interpreted philosophically."

www.crescat.com

News | Business | Features | Editorial | Security 
 Politics | World | Letters | Sports | Obituaries

Produced by Lake House
Copyright 2001 The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd.
Comments and suggestions to :Web Manager