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Dec 31, 2022 · Dec. 31, 2022. The clerical sex abuse scandal broke under Pope John Paul II in the years that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — who would later become Pope Benedict XVI — headed the Vatican’s ...
Jan 8, 2015 · Pope Benedict XVI has again been drawn into the sex abuse crisis rocking the Catholic Church. Already accused of assisting the cover-up of abuses in his native Germany, Benedict is facing new ...
Dec 31, 2022 · Dec. 31, 2022, 11:18 AM PST. By Corky Siemaszko. The priest sex-abuse scandal was the albatross around the neck of Pope Emeritus Benedict’s brief eight-year reign as leader of the Roman Catholic ...
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- Corky Siemaszko
Dec 31, 2022 · By —. By —. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died Saturday morning in a Vatican City monastery at the age of 95. In St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis remembered his predecessor, who made history ...
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- Laura Barrón-López,Ryan Connelly Holmes
Jan 5, 2023 · Pope Benedict XVI was born Joseph Ratzinger in 1927. He was ordained a priest in 1951, became archbishop of Munich in the late '70s, led the Vatican's chief doctrine and discipline office, the ...
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- Nick Schifrin,Teresa Cebrián Aranda
Dec 31, 2022 · Pope Benedict XVI, a staunch traditionalist who became the first pope in six centuries to retire, has died at the age of 95. Pope Benedict XVI, Traditionalist Surrounded by Scandal, Dead at 95
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Jan 20, 2022 · Benedict’s legacy as pope had already been colored by the global eruption in 2010 of the sex abuse scandal, although as a cardinal he was responsible for turning around the Vatican’s approach ...
