Vatican City, Jul 6, 2017 / 07:23 am
Pope St. John Paul II's former spokesman, Dr. Joaquìn Navarro-Valls, has died at the age of 80.
A numerary of Opus Dei and a trained doctor, the Spanish journalist had been diagnosed with terminal cancer some weeks ago.
He passed away at 8:41 this evening at home after being discharged from the Opus Dei-run Campus Biomedico hospital in Rome.
His current successor, Holy See Press Office Director Greg Burke, announced the news yesterday with the following tweets: