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Topic: Pope Benedict XVI

Church of St. Francis of Assisi commemorates the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI displaying his portrait picture with a black ribbon, on January 04, 2023 in Krakow, Poland. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Pope Benedict: Troubled leader, no saint

Celia Viggo Wexler

Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd gathered in St Mark's Square while crossing the square on an electric car on May 7, 2011 in Venice, Italy. (Marco Secchi/Getty Images)

Late pope's sexual abuse suit continues

Pope Benedict XVI arrives inside the cathedral on September 12, 2006 in Bavaria | Contessina, one of Pope Benedict XVI's cats at the convent of Mater Ecclesiae inside the Vatican (Photo illustration by Salon/Fabrice Coffrini/Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images)

5 Popes and their beloved papal pets

(Reuters/Stefano Rellandini)

Pope silent on AIDs epidemic

(AP/Jacquelyn Martin/Craig Ruttle)

Francis' hope, Boehner's shame

Nuns hold up a poster with portraits of Pope John Paul II, left, and John XXIII, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, April 27, 2014. (AP/Emilio Morenatti)

These popes are not saints

Pope Francis is driven through the crowd in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 27, 2014. Pope Francis has declared his two predecessors John XXIII and John Paul II saints in an unprecedented canonization ceremony made even more historic by the presence of retired Pope Benedict XVI. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) (Vadim Ghirda)

Nicole Winfield, Daniela Petroff

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-853726p1.html'>Jeffrey Bruno</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Pope defrocked 400 priests

Nicole Winfield, John Heilprin - The Associated Press

Theologian and Episcopal priest Matthew Fox (left) and Pope Francis (Reuters)

Is Pope Francis a fraud?

(via YouTube)

Katie McDonough

White smoke billows from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel indicating that a new pope has been elected in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. (AP/Andrew Medichini)

Alas, no more pope-free days!

Mary Elizabeth Williams

(AP)

Associated Press

Associated Press

(AP/Scott Campbell)

Ant-gay cardinal is gay

Mary Elizabeth Williams

(AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Katie McDonough

(AP)

Nicole Winfield

(AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

We need an outsider pope!

Mary Elizabeth Williams

(AP)

Katie McDonough

Frances D'emilio

(Reuters/Alessandro Bianchi)

Was the pope blackmailed?

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Natasha Lennard

(AP)

Nicole Winfield

(NBC/Dana Edelson)

"SNL": Waltz plays god

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