Benedict
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The War Between the Catholic Cardinals
The death of the pope emeritus, Benedict XVI, was succeeded by a small literary outpouring, a rush of publications that were interpreted as salvos in the Catholic Church’s civil war. The list includes a memoir by Benedict’s longtime secretary that ...
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World
Benedict’s Burial Leaves Francis Alone, and Unbound
Liberal supporters of Francis, a pope never shy about exercising power, now anticipate a late-breaking season of change.
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Newyork
Pope Benedict Wasn’t Conservative. He Was Something Much More Surprising.
“The words of a dead man,” W.H. Auden wrote in his elegy for a fellow poet, “are modified in the guts of the living.” In the case of Pope Benedict XVI, whose requiem Mass was celebrated on Thursday, this process of transformation began long before ...
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Some find fault with Francis’ homily for Benedict.
VATICAN CITY — The unusual nature of Thursday’s funeral for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, presided over by his successor, Pope Francis, only heightened curiosity over what course Francis would take to honor Benedict. Would he give his predecessor the ...
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Faithful Gather in the Vatican to View Pope Benedict’s Body
Tens of thousands came to see the pope emeritus, who died on Saturday at age 95, as he lay in state for three days ahead of his funeral on Thursday.
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Benedict Leaves Behind a Conflicted Legacy on Clerical Sexual Abuse
Joseph Ratzinger was accused of mishandling cases when he was bishop of Munich, but as pope he was credited with forcing the Catholic Church to face a scourge long ignored.
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Your Tuesday Briefing: A Major Ukrainian Strike
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World
Benedict’s Death Leaves Catholic Conservatives Bereft
Even after his resignation as pope, traditionalists invoked Benedict’s name and sought to draw him into internecine ideological wars. Now he is gone.
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Newyork
The First Afterlife of Pope Benedict XVI
The first pope to resign was Celestine V, born Pietro Da Morrone, who was living the life of a pious hermit when he was elevated to the papacy in 1294, in his 80s, to break a two-year deadlock in the College of Cardinals. Feeling overmastered by the ...
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World
Biden and Pelosi pay homage to Pope Benedict XVI.
CHRISTIANSTED, V.I. — President Biden praised former Pope Benedict XVI for his “generosity” on Saturday, joining other American Catholics in mourning the former pontiff. Mr. Biden is the second Catholic president, along with John F. Kennedy, but has ...
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