Pope
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World
With Benedict’s Death, an Unprecedented Moment for the Modern Church
Benedict stunned the Roman Catholic world by becoming the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign. Now his death leaves a living pope presiding over the funeral of his predecessor.
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Benedict was criticized for his leadership of the church’s sex abuse scandal.
The clerical sex abuse scandal festered and then broke open under Pope John Paul II in the years that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — who would later become Pope Benedict XVI — headed the Vatican’s doctrinal office, which handled the cases of priests ...
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World
His resignation as pope in 2013 shocked the world.
ROME — When Benedict XVI resigned in 2013, he was the first pope to do so in six centuries, and the move sent shock waves around the world. Benedict announced the decision in Latin during a routine gathering of cardinals, telling them that after much ...
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From Germans, an Outpouring of Mixed Emotions at Benedict XVI’s Death
Church bells rang across Germany on Saturday as leaders around the country paid their respects to Benedict XVI — the first German to be pope in decades, but whose legacy in his country of birth is contested. “As a ‘German’ pope, Benedict XVI was a ...
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World
Pope Benedict’s Life in Pictures
A soft-spoken intellectual and scholar, Benedict XVI was the head of the world’s 1.3 billion Roman Catholics for eight years, sandwiched between the charismatic Pope (now Saint) John Paul II (1978-2005), one of the longest papacies in history, and ...
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Pope Francis Asks for Prayers for ‘Very Ill’ Benedict
Francis called on the faithful to offer up support for his 95-year-old predecessor as the Vatican said that the retired pope’s health had deteriorated in recent hours.
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Pope Francis to Return 3 Parthenon Marble Fragments to Greece
The pope will donate the 2,500-year-old pieces held by the Vatican Museums to the archbishop of Athens, a gesture that increases pressure on the British Museum to act over similar items on show in London.
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Pope Francis compares Russia’s war against Ukraine to a devastating Stalin-era famine.
Pope Francis on Wednesday compared the war in Ukraine to the “terrible Holodomor genocide” of the 1930s, when the policies of the Soviet dictator ...
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Books
Jeremy Pope Is Telling Himself ‘Yes’
I’ve interviewed my fair share of leading men, and I know how often that conversation turns into a war of attrition. Can I convince these famous ...