By Francis X. Rocca
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI was once a card-carrying organ donor, but the offer expired when he assumed the papal throne, according to the Vatican. A donor card acquired by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in the 1970s "became ipso facto obsolete" with his election as pope, according to Monsignor Georg Ganswein*, Benedict's private secretary, as reported by the German website of Vatican Radio on Wednesday (Feb. 2).
*and who would know more about Benny's organ than Georg
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