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c. 1996 Religion News Service ROME _ A team of surgeons successfully removed Pope John Paul II's inflamed appendix Tuesday (Oct. 8) and said there was no recurrence of a benign tumor removed in 1992. But they skirted questions about other illnesses that might be afflic...