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Vatican City, Apr 4, 2014 \/ 12:23 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Italian Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, who was a close collaborator of Blessed John Paul II, said the future saint believed that \u201cthe first duty of the Pope was to pray for the Church and the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI worked very closely with Pope John Paul II, from the beginning of his pontificate until the end,\u201d he said. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\tSpeaking with CNA on April 2, the ninth anniversary of the death of John Paul II, Cardinal Re reflected on the late pontiff\u2019s testimony.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cHe would say that the first duty of the Pope was to pray for the Church and the world, to obtain help from God and to be able to make things better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIt was amazing to see how he could go from contact with huge crowds to the solitude of prayer,\u201d Cardinal Re said. \u201cWhen he prayed, he had a great ability to concentrate, and before every big decision he would pray for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tCardinal Re worked at the Vatican Secretariat of State when Cardinal Karol Wojtyla was elected Pope in 1978.<\/p>\n

\tHe was ordained a bishop by Pope John Paul II in 1987 and in September of 2000, he was made prefect of the Congregation for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cMy first contact with Pope John Paul II,\u201d he recalled, \u201cwas because he would write his homilies and speeches in Polish, and later they were translated by Poles into Italian, and then finally they were brought to me for linguistic review and to ensure that all the translations from the Italian point of view were correct.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe first speech I was tasked with reviewing was the one he gave in St. Peter\u2019s Square, in which he said, \u2018Be not afraid! Open the doors to Christ!\u2019\u201d Cardinal Re said.<\/p>\n

\tPope John Paul II, he continued, was \u201ca great man\u201d in many aspects. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\u201cHe was a great man because of his deep thought, his ability to speak different languages, his skill at speaking to the multitudes. He was also a great mystic who was near to people and to situations, and in this way he influenced society and history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cHe had the advantage of a long pontificate, because otherwise not many would have understood him,\u201d Cardinal Re continued. \u201cAnd he is a great saint, because he was a man of prayer and at the same time a great man of action.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe cardinal said he is looking forward to the upcoming canonizations of John Paul II and John XXIII on April 27, the feast of Divine Mercy.<\/p>\n

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