Before he became Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was known for his staunch charity — but the newly-passed pontiff's own organs will not be donated due to church doctrine. It does not appear that Francis was himself an organ donor, but his predecessor, Pope Benedict, had been in his previous life as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — and the topic of his organs became controversial years before his death in 2022. The debacle began in 2011 when a German doctor, who had been advocating for the practice by correctly pointing out that then-Pope Benedict had volunteered as an organ donor decades […]

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