Pope Benedict

Web 1 day agoBenedict was the first pope in six centuries to step down. Web Vatican City Pope Francis said Wednesday that his predecessor Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is very sick and he is praying for him and would like the faithful.

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Benedict XVI was leader in responding to sexual abuse.

. Pope Francis said his predecessor Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was a leader in taking. Web Rome CNN Pope Francis said Wednesday that his predecessor Pope Benedict is very sick and asked for prayers for the 95-year-old former pontiff. Web The future pope then five years old was part of a group of children who presented the cardinal with flowers and later that day Ratzinger announced he wanted to be a cardinal.

His papacy testifies to both a scholarly. Bruni said that Benedicts. Pope Francis who uses a wheelchair due to knee pain has often alluded to his own resignation.

Web On April 18 2005 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected the 264th successor of Saint Peter and chose the name Benedict XVI. Increasingly frail he has rarely made public appearances in recent years. Web 1 day agoBenedict became one of the churchs leading theologians by holding an orthodox line leading the campaign first as a cardinal then as pope to resist.

Peters Square at the Vatican to attend the beatification ceremony of Pope Paul VI in 2014. Web 23 hours agoBorn in 1927 in what is now Germany as Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger Benedict was selected pope in 2005 after the death of Pope John Paul II and officiated. Web Pope Francis.

Web 1 day agoBenedict 95 in 2013 became the first pope in more than 600 years to resign citing his advanced age and ebbing strength amid the clerical sexual abuse scandal that. Web Pope Benedict IX born Theophylactus of Tusculum in Rome was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States on three occasions between October 1032 and July 1048. Web 1 day agoBenedict the first German pope in 1000 years was elected on April 19 2005 to succeed the widely popular Pope John Paul II who reigned for 27 years.

Pope Francis on Wednesday. Web Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI arrives in St. Web 1 day agoBenedict was the first pope to retire in 600 years.

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