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David Willey, longtime BBC Vatican correspondent, dies at 93
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David Willey, longtime BBC Vatican correspondent, dies at 93
David Willey, who covered five papacies and reported for the BBC for over half a century, has died aged 93.
- Willey died of heart failure in Italy.
- He covered the papacies of five popes and met the newly elected Pope Leo last year.
- BBC correspondent Mark Lowen said Willey gave him insight and encouragement when Lowen started in Rome in 2019.
- Willey recalled surreptitiously picking up a smuggled papal speech for Reuters in the 1950s.
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