"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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An unexpectedly clear voice came out of my other brother's mouth, though I thought he'd be breaking down in tears.

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