The death of Pope John Paul II

The Vatican has released details of Pope John Paul II's final days and hours:

Struggling to breathe, Pope John Paul II mumbled his final words weakly in Polish: "Let me go to the house of the Father." Six hours later, the comatose pontiff died, the Vatican says.

The account of John Paul's final hours appears in a meticulously detailed official report on his last weeks just released by the Vatican in what might be an effort to ward off any doubts about how forthcoming it has been about his illness and April 2 death.

For what I wrote about the late pontiff around the time of his death, see here, here, and here. I wrote about Cardinal Ratzinger's (Pope Benedict XVI's) election here, here, here and here.