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Your questions: Longtime AP bureau chief Victor Simpson, who covered 5 popes, dies at 84
Compiled Sep 14
Did Simpson's private conversation with Benedict XVI in 2012 actually influence the pope's decision to resign?
His reporting career spanned the papacies of five popes, including 92 trips with John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
What type of cancer did Simpson have, and how long had he been ill?
Victor L. Simpson died of cancer on a Sunday at his home in Rome, at age 84.
How did the family reconcile the joy of Debbie's birth with the grief over Natasha's death?
The reporting doesn’t answer this yet.
What specific stories or interviews from his memoir 'Life of a Reporter' detail his career in full?
Simpson wrote a 2024 memoir titled 'Life of a Reporter.'