FILE PHOTO: The Pope's official spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls gestures during a news conference in the Holy See press office at the Vatican April 16, 2005. REUTERS/Tony Gentile/File Photo
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Joaquin Navarro-Valls, who as spokesman for two popes was the world's second-most visible Catholic luminary for nearly a quarter of a century, died on Wednesday at the age of 80, friends said.
Navarro-Valls, a Spaniard who had degrees in medicine and psychiatry before becoming a journalist, had been suffering from cancer. He died in Rome.
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