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No./ 17 A Tale Of Two Popes

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POPE BENEDICT ANTHONY HOPKINS

“He is a scholar. He’s very old. He’s got the voice of a rather older man, and the vocal cords are a bit husky. So I imitated that. I’ve got a baritone voice — I can’t use that. Also, [Joseph Aloisius] Ratzinger’s [Pope Benedict’s

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