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Benedict's death clears path for Pope Francis to retire of old age in future

Six months ago Pope Francis brushed off speculation he was about to resign due to health problems, but even if he had toyed with the idea, he faced one major obstacle: there was already another ex-pope in retirement.

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Recalling Benedict’s grace but also the storms of his papacy

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The Independent UK

Benedict aide's tell-all book will expose 'dark maneuvers'

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s longtime personal secretary has written a tell-all book that is coming out this month

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Pope Benedict's emotional final words before dying revealed by archbishop

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s "last comprehensible words" have been revealed, as his body now lies at St Peter’s Basilica, in the Vatican City, Rome, to allow the faithful to pay respects

Daily Mirror

Watch: Pope Benedict XVI lying in state at the Vatican begins

The body of former Pope Benedict XVI is lying in state in St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican for mourners to pay their respects. The doors of St Peter's Basilica opened for viewing by the public at just after 9am local time. Public viewing lasts for 10 hours on Monday…

Evening Standard

Pope Benedict XVI’s lying in state begins in Vatican as thousands expected to pay their respects

Former pope’s body will lie in state until his funeral on Thursday

The Independent UK

Tens of thousands view body of former Pope Benedict

A steady stream of tens of thousands of people filed into St. Peter's Basilica on Monday to pay their respects to former Pope Benedict XVI, whose body was laying in state without any papal paraphernalia ahead of his funeral this week.

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Pope Benedict XVI: Lying in state at the Vatican begins

Tens of thousands of people are paying their respects to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI as they file past his body

Evening Standard

Thousands queue to pay their respects to former pope Benedict XVI

Thousands of Catholics began paying their respects on Monday to former pope Benedict XVI at St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in Rome, at the start of three days of lying-in-state before his funeral.

Radio France Internationale

Tens of thousands to pay tribute to Pope Benedict XVI as lying in state begins

THOUSANDS of people are expected to pay their respects to former Pope Benedict XVI when his lying in state begins at the Vatican on Monday.

The National (Scotland)

Thousands line up for viewing of Benedict's body at Vatican

Thousands of people are lining up across St. Peter's Square to view the body in St. Peter's Basilica of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

The Independent UK

Benedict XVI: thousands expected to pay respects to former pope

Benedict’s body displayed in chapel of the Vatican monastery and will lie in state at St Peter’s Basilica

The Guardian - UK

Catholics across the world pray for late Pope Benedict XVI as his body lies in state

WARNING: DISTRESSING IMAGES Pope Benedict XVI passed away in the early hours of Saturday morning in the Vatican quarters he lived in after his ailing health forced him to step down as the head of the Catholic Church in 2013

Daily Mirror

Benedict death paves way for protocols to guide future popes

The death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has unfolded in an entirely un-papal-like manner: There were no bells tolling in St. Peter's Basilica, no solemn announcement in a Vatican City square and no mobilizing of official delegations to Rome

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Death of former Pope Benedict overshadows New Year at Vatican

Pope Francis marked the Roman Catholic Church's traditional World Day of Peace on Sunday but the start of the new year at the Vatican was overshadowed by the death of his predecessor, Benedict.

The Independent UK

Benedict leaves German homeland with complicated legacy

Pope Benedict XVI leaves his homeland with a complicated legacy: pride in a German pontiff but a church deeply divided over the need for reforms in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal in which his own actions of decades ago were faulted

The Independent UK

Pope marks New Year as Vatican prepares to mourn Benedict

Pope Francis has marked the New Year by presiding over Mass in St. Peter's Basilica and praying for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, a day after his retired predecessor's death

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Pope Francis Addresses Faithful after Ex-pope's Death

Pope Francis will address the Catholic faithful on Sunday at the Vatican, the day after the death of his predecessor at the age of 95. The pontiff led tributes on Saturday to the "kind" and "noble" emeritus pope, who died almost a decade after becoming the first head of the…

The Independent UK

Benedict’s 2013 resignation shook a routine Vatican ceremony

The reporter who was covering a routine ceremony by Pope Benedict XVI on Feb. 11, 2013, never expected what unfolded, or that her high school Latin would give her the scoop of a lifetime

The Independent UK

Though faulted, Benedict turned Vatican around on sex abuse

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI rarely got credit for having turned the Vatican around on clergy sexual abuse, but as cardinal and pope, he pushed through revolutionary changes to church law to make it easier to defrock predator priests

The Independent UK

Catholic worshippers across the UK to pray for Pope Benedict XVI

Church leaders have urged worshippers to keep the former pope in their prayers when they attend church services on Sunday.

Reuters

Taiwan president's special envoy to attend late Pope's funeral

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will send a special envoy to attend this week's funeral of former Pope Benedict, with her office saying it is a demonstration of the "deep friendship" between Taiwan and the Vatican, which has been courting China.

Tribune News Service

Benedict XVI, pope whose resignation shook Catholics, dies

Benedict XVI, who shocked the world’s 1.2 billion followers of the Roman Catholic Church when he became the first pope to resign in almost six centuries, has died. He was 95.

Manchester Evening News

King Charles expresses 'deep sadness' following death of former Pope Benedict XVI

“The Queen and the Pope understood what it was to be in service more or less for a lifetime.”

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