The death of the pope emeritus, Benedict XVI, was succeeded by a small literary outpouring, a rush of publications that…
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Liberal supporters of Francis, a pope never shy about exercising power, now anticipate a late-breaking season of change.
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“The words of a dead man,” W.H. Auden wrote in his elegy for a fellow poet, “are modified in the…
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VATICAN CITY — The unusual nature of Thursday’s funeral for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, presided over by his successor, Pope…
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Tens of thousands came to see the pope emeritus, who died on Saturday at age 95, as he lay in…
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Joseph Ratzinger was accused of mishandling cases when he was bishop of Munich, but as pope he was credited with…
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Also, China’s uncertain economic recovery.
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Even after his resignation as pope, traditionalists invoked Benedict’s name and sought to draw him into internecine ideological wars. Now…
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The first pope to resign was Celestine V, born Pietro Da Morrone, who was living the life of a pious…
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CHRISTIANSTED, V.I. — President Biden praised former Pope Benedict XVI for his “generosity” on Saturday, joining other American Catholics in…
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