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June 5, 2019

Former president of papal academy dies day before his 91st birthday

Cardinal Elio Sgreccia, former head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, died June 5 at the age of 90. In his role at the academy Cardinal Sgreccia helped articulate the Vatican's position on life issues. He is pictured leaving a session of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican in this Oct. 16, 2014, file photo.

VATICAN CITY -- The former head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Cardinal Elio Sgreccia, died June 5, just one day shy of his 91st birthday.

Published in International