Thank you again, Your Holiness, for your kindness, and the honour of this meeting.

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"All of us have understood that it is precisely the deep love that your holiness has for God and the church which pushed you to this act, " he said.

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"We wouldn't be sincere, Your Holiness, if we didn't tell you that there's a veil of sadness on our hearts this evening, " Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Benedict's longtime deputy, told the pope at the end of the service, his voice breaking.

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