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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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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Benedict stunned the Roman Catholic world by becoming the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign. Now his death…
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The clerical sex abuse scandal festered and then broke open under Pope John Paul II in the years that Cardinal…
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ROME — When Benedict XVI resigned in 2013, he was the first pope to do so in six centuries, and…
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Church bells rang across Germany on Saturday as leaders around the country paid their respects to Benedict XVI — the…
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A soft-spoken intellectual and scholar, Benedict XVI was the head of the world’s 1.3 billion Roman Catholics for eight years,…
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