‘POPE John Paul II did not leave a will, the Vatican has announced.

Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls made the announcement after the first general congregation of cardinals since the Pope’s death on Saturday.

A last testament, which would have been opened by the cardinals, may have contained instructions for the pope’s burial or spiritual reflections.’

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