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Benedict XVI Returns to Vatican for First Time
(VATICAN CITY) — Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI came home to the Vatican on Thursday for the first time since he resigned Feb. 28, beginning an unprecedented era...
Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI: Vatican Denies Rumors of Poor Health
More speculation on the former Pope's health.
Lightning Strikes St. Peter’s Basilica the Day Pope Benedict XVI Resigns
Is it a sign from God or a massively impressive display of the force of nature?
Pope Benedict XVI’s Legacy: Most Europeans Say He Was ‘Not Influential’ in New Poll
As Pope Benedict XVI steps down today as head of the Roman Catholic Church, a new survey shows that most people across Europe feel that the outgoing pontiff has...
The Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI: Is It Health? Or Politics? Or Both?
The election of the new pope will have an element that few past conclaves did: the influence of the still-living old pope
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LIFE at the Vatican: Digging Through History Beneath St. Peter’s
The walled, pint-sized city-state known as the Vatican physically takes up around 100 acres in the center of Rome, but occupies a vast, measureless space in the...
Photos: Pope Benedict XVI’s Final General Audience
Pope Benedict XV’s last general audience in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 drew an estimated crowd of tens of thousands of...
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Pope Benedict XVI and the Swiss Guards
As Pope Benedict XVI steps down today he’ll also bid farewell to the Swiss Guards — an elite military unit that has guarded Vatican City for centuries and play a...
Top 10 Controversial Popes
As controversy swirls around the Catholic Church and noted atheists such as Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins call for Pope Benedict XVI's arrest for...
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Pope Benedict XVI leaves the Vatican
Pope Benedict XVI's retirement had taken effect, propelling the Roman Catholic Church into a highly unusual and uncertain interregnum. ...
Pope Francis and predecessor pray together
Newly elected pope tells former pope Benedict XVI'' We are brothers'', in first such meeting in at least 600 years. ...
Vatican bank troubles await pope's attention
But he will also come across a thick dossier on the Vatican's secretive bank, which his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, tried to drag into the daylight after years of...
Pope Benedict XVI's last general audience draws thousands
A day before his retirement, Benedict XVI tells the crowd at St. Peter's Square that his eight-year papacy has been a grand journey, one always steered by God. VATICAN CITY --...
