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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…
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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…
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World
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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Arts
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…